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    The surname Giarratano

    An Italian place surname, carried by 700 people in the United States.

    4 syllables Soundex G635

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Giarratano is more common than 79.8% of them.

    Origin

    Italian origin

    The Giarratano surname is derived from Italian Giarratana, a town in Ragusa, Sicily. The town name Giarratana comes from Cerretanum, as noted by Sicilian etymologist Michele Pasqualino. Giarratana or Cerretanum is from Italian cerro, from the Latin Quercus Cerris, meaning Turkey oak, Quercus cerris, due to the many oak trees in the area.. Gradually over time, Cerretanum changed to Giarratana, due to phonetic assonance.

    Giarratano is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    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 700 people named Giarratano in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 441,065 Americans. That is up 9.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 640.

    #32,792
    rank among US surnames
    700
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.4%
    change since 2000 (was #33,605)

    Who is named Giarratano

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

    95% of people named Giarratano identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Giarratano

    Giarratano has the Soundex code G635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G635.

    Other Italian surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Giarratano come from?
    The Giarratano surname is derived from Italian Giarratana, a town in Ragusa, Sicily. The town name Giarratana comes from Cerretanum, as noted by Sicilian etymologist Michele Pasqualino. Giarratana or Cerretanum is from Italian cerro, from the Latin Quercus Cerris, meaning Turkey oak, Quercus…
    How common is the surname Giarratano?
    700 people in the United States had the surname Giarratano in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 441,065 Americans. It ranked 32,792nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Giarratano?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Giarratano identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Giarratano?
    Giarratano is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Giarratano getting more or less common?
    More common. 640 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 700 in 2010, up 9.4%.