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The surname Panza

An Italian surname, carried by 1,296 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P520

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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). Panza is more common than 87.4% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Panza.

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 1,296 people named Panza in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 238,230 Americans. That is up 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,254.

#20,480
rank among US surnames
1,296
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+3.3%
change since 2000 (was #19,840)

Who is named Panza

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

85% of people named Panza identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

  • White (not Hispanic) 85%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 11%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.5%
  • Two or more races 1.2%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%

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 Panza

Panza has the Soundex code P520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P520.

Other Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Panza come from?
Borrowed from Italian Panza.
How common is the surname Panza?
1,296 people in the United States had the surname Panza in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 238,230 Americans. It ranked 20,480th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Panza?
In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Panza identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Panza getting more or less common?
More common. 1,254 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,296 in 2010, up 3.3%.