How common is the surname Orso?

1,142 people in the United States had the surname Orso in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 270,355 Americans. It ranked 22,516th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Orso?

In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Orso identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.1% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Is the surname Orso getting more or less common?

More common. 1,099 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,142 in 2010, up 3.9%.

The surname Orso

A surname, carried by 1,142 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex O620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Orso is more common than 86.1% of them.

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,142 people named Orso in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 270,355 Americans. That is up 3.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,099.

#22,516

rank among US surnames

1,142

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+3.9%

change since 2000 (was #21,998)

Who is named Orso

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

72% of people named Orso identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.1% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 7.6% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 72%
American Indian and Alaska Native 8.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 7.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7.3%
Two or more races 4.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Orso

Orso has the Soundex code O620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O620.

Questions

How common is the surname Orso?: 1,142 people in the United States had the surname Orso in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 270,355 Americans. It ranked 22,516th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Orso?: In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Orso identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.1% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Orso getting more or less common?: More common. 1,099 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,142 in 2010, up 3.9%.