How common is the surname DeLisi?

1,076 people in the United States had the surname DeLisi in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 286,938 Americans. It ranked 23,587th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname DeLisi?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named DeLisi identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname DeLisi getting more or less common?

More common. 992 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,076 in 2010, up 8.5%.

The surname DeLisi

An Italian surname, carried by 1,076 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex D420

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). DeLisi is more common than 85.5% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Univerbation borrowed from Italian De Lisi, itself an italianization of Sicilian Di Lisi (“literally of Lisi”).

One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,076 people named DeLisi in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 286,938 Americans. That is up 8.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 992.

#23,587

rank among US surnames

1,076

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+8.5%

change since 2000 (was #23,796)

Who is named DeLisi

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

96% of people named DeLisi identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like DeLisi

DeLisi has the Soundex code D420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D420.

Other Italian surnames

All 798 Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname DeLisi come from?: Univerbation borrowed from Italian De Lisi, itself an italianization of Sicilian Di Lisi (“literally of Lisi”).
How common is the surname DeLisi?: 1,076 people in the United States had the surname DeLisi in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 286,938 Americans. It ranked 23,587th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname DeLisi?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named DeLisi identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname DeLisi getting more or less common?: More common. 992 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,076 in 2010, up 8.5%.