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The surname DiMaio

An Italian surname, carried by 1,750 people in the United States.

4 syllables Soundex D500

DiMaio: #16,437 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer DiMaio #16,437, 1,750 people DiMaio: #16,437 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez DiMaio #16,437, 1,750 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). DiMaio is more common than 89.9% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Di Maio.

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 1,750 people named DiMaio in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 176,426 Americans. That is up 6.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,646.

#16,437
rank among US surnames
1,750
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+6.3%
change since 2000 (was #16,147)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#16,437Novello1,750176,426
#16,444Guimond1,749176,527

Who is named DiMaio

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

94% of people named DiMaio identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 94%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
  • Two or more races 1.2%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like DiMaio

DiMaio has the Soundex code D500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D500.

Other Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname DiMaio come from?
Borrowed from Italian Di Maio.
How common is the surname DiMaio?
1,750 people in the United States had the surname DiMaio in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 176,426 Americans. It ranked 16,437th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname DiMaio?
In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named DiMaio identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname DiMaio getting more or less common?
More common. 1,646 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,750 in 2010, up 6.3%.