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    The surname Derosa

    An Italian surname, carried by 8,241 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex D620

    Derosa: #4,314 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Derosa #4,314, 8,241 people Derosa: #4,314 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Derosa #4,314, 8,241 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Derosa is more common than 97.3% of them.

    Origin

    Italian origin

    Borrowed from Italian De Rosa.

    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 8,241 people named Derosa in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 37,465 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 8,210.

    #4,314
    rank among US surnames
    8,241
    people in 2010
    2.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.4%
    change since 2000 (was #3,974)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,309McCue8,25037,424
    #4,311Fogarty8,24537,446
    #4,312Prosser8,24437,451
    #4,314Derosa8,24137,465

    Who is named Derosa

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

    92% of people named Derosa identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Derosa

    Derosa has the Soundex code D620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D620.

    Other Italian surnames

    All 798 Italian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Derosa come from?
    Borrowed from Italian De Rosa.
    How common is the surname Derosa?
    8,241 people in the United States had the surname Derosa in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 37,465 Americans. It ranked 4,314th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Derosa?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Derosa identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Derosa getting more or less common?
    More common. 8,210 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,241 in 2010, up 0.4%.