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The surname Lorusso

An Italian surname, carried by 2,243 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex L620

Lorusso: #13,525 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Lorusso #13,525, 2,243 people Lorusso: #13,525 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Lorusso #13,525, 2,243 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lorusso is more common than 91.7% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Lorusso.

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 2,243 people named Lorusso in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 137,648 Americans. That is down 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,274.

#13,525
rank among US surnames
2,243
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
-1.4%
change since 2000 (was #12,499)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#13,517Amico2,244137,587
#13,525Peralez2,243137,648
#13,531Stringham2,242137,710

Who is named Lorusso

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

94% of people named Lorusso identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 94%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
  • Two or more races 1.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lorusso

Lorusso has the Soundex code L620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L620.

Other Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Lorusso come from?
Borrowed from Italian Lorusso.
How common is the surname Lorusso?
2,243 people in the United States had the surname Lorusso in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 137,648 Americans. It ranked 13,525th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lorusso?
In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Lorusso identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lorusso getting more or less common?
Less common. 2,274 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,243 in 2010, down 1.4%.