How common is the surname Durso?

3,445 people in the United States had the surname Durso in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 89,621 Americans. It ranked 9,444th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Durso?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Durso identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Durso getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,454 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,445 in 2010, down 0.3%.

The surname Durso

A Sicilian surname, carried by 3,445 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex D620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Durso is more common than 94.2% of them.

Origin

Sicilian origin

From the Southern Italian surname D'Ursu, a surname derived from Sicilian ursu (“bear”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,445 people named Durso in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 89,621 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,454.

#9,444

rank among US surnames

3,445

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

-0.3%

change since 2000 (was #8,761)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,437	Bethune	3,447	89,569
#9,440	Wehner	3,446	89,595
#9,444	Durso	3,445	89,621
#9,446	McGruder	3,444	89,647
#9,449	Subramanian	3,443	89,673
#9,451	Pick	3,442	89,699

Who is named Durso

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

95% of people named Durso identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
Two or more races 0.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Durso

Durazo

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

Questions

Where does the surname Durso come from?: From the Southern Italian surname D'Ursu, a surname derived from Sicilian ursu (“bear”).
How common is the surname Durso?: 3,445 people in the United States had the surname Durso in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 89,621 Americans. It ranked 9,444th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Durso?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Durso identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Durso getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,454 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,445 in 2010, down 0.3%.