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The surname DiSalvo

An Italian surname, carried by 3,156 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex D241

DiSalvo: #10,211 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer DiSalvo #10,211, 3,156 people DiSalvo: #10,211 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez DiSalvo #10,211, 3,156 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). DiSalvo is more common than 93.7% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Di Salvo.

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 3,156 people named DiSalvo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 97,828 Americans. That is up 4.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,018.

#10,211
rank among US surnames
3,156
people in 2010
1.1
per 100,000 Americans
+4.6%
change since 2000 (was #9,869)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#10,204Thakkar3,15797,797
#10,211Broadus3,15697,828
#10,215Shue3,15597,859
#10,219Greeson3,15497,890

Who is named DiSalvo

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

94% of people named DiSalvo identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 94%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
  • Two or more races 1.1%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
  • 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 DiSalvo

DiSalvo has the Soundex code D241, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D241.

Other Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname DiSalvo come from?
Borrowed from Italian Di Salvo.
How common is the surname DiSalvo?
3,156 people in the United States had the surname DiSalvo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 97,828 Americans. It ranked 10,211th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname DiSalvo?
In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named DiSalvo identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname DiSalvo getting more or less common?
More common. 3,018 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,156 in 2010, up 4.6%.