How common is the surname Festa?

2,626 people in the United States had the surname Festa in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 117,573 Americans. It ranked 11,925th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Festa?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Festa identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Festa getting more or less common?

More common. 2,545 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,626 in 2010, up 3.2%.

The surname Festa

An Italian surname, carried by 2,626 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F230

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Festa is more common than 92.7% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Festa.

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 2,626 people named Festa in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 117,573 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,545.

#11,925

rank among US surnames

2,626

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+3.2%

change since 2000 (was #11,366)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,919	Karsten	2,627	117,528
#11,925	Festa	2,626	117,573
#11,926	Brass	2,625	117,617
#11,928	Polansky	2,624	117,662
#11,932	Kamal	2,623	117,707
#11,933	Ballance	2,622	117,752

Who is named Festa

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

94% of people named Festa identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
Two or more races 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%

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 Festa

Festa has the Soundex code F230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F230.

Other Italian surnames

All 798 Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Festa come from?: Borrowed from Italian Festa.
How common is the surname Festa?: 2,626 people in the United States had the surname Festa in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 117,573 Americans. It ranked 11,925th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Festa?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Festa identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Festa getting more or less common?: More common. 2,545 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,626 in 2010, up 3.2%.