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    The surname Magro

    A surname, carried by 1,102 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M260

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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). Magro is more common than 85.7% of them.

    Origin

    From the surname Magro, from the Italianization of Sicilian Màguru, a surname derived from màguru (“thin, meager”).

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,102 people named Magro in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 280,168 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,106.

    #23,153
    rank among US surnames
    1,102
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.4%
    change since 2000 (was #21,892)

    Who is named Magro

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

    89% of people named Magro identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.3%
    • Two or more races 1.0%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Magro

    Magro has the Soundex code M260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M260.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Magro come from?
    From the surname Magro, from the Italianization of Sicilian Màguru, a surname derived from màguru (“thin, meager”).
    How common is the surname Magro?
    1,102 people in the United States had the surname Magro in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 280,168 Americans. It ranked 23,153rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Magro?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Magro identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Magro getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,106 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,102 in 2010, down 0.4%.