How common is the surname Pellegrino?

7,398 people in the United States had the surname Pellegrino in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 41,734 Americans. It ranked 4,781st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Pellegrino?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Pellegrino identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Pellegrino?

Mauricio Pellegrino, Argentine association football manager, followed by Mark Pellegrino.

Where is the surname Pellegrino most common?

Wikidata records people named Pellegrino in Argentina, the United States and Brazil and 2 other countries.

Is the surname Pellegrino getting more or less common?

More common. 7,237 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,398 in 2010, up 2.2%.

The surname Pellegrino

An Italian surname, carried by 7,398 people in the United States.

4 syllables Soundex P426

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pellegrino is more common than 97.1% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Pellegrino.

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 7,398 people named Pellegrino in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 41,734 Americans. That is up 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,237.

#4,781

rank among US surnames

7,398

people in 2010

2.5

per 100,000 Americans

+2.2%

change since 2000 (was #4,512)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,772	Ching	7,417	41,627
#4,774	Whitehurst	7,412	41,655
#4,775	Lew	7,410	41,666
#4,776	Hintz	7,406	41,689
#4,777	Fiedler	7,403	41,705
#4,778	Upshaw	7,401	41,717
#4,779	Cushman	7,400	41,722

Who is named Pellegrino

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

95% of people named Pellegrino identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Pellegrinos

8 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Mauricio Pellegrino
Argentine association football manager, born 1971
Mark Pellegrino
American actor (born 1965)
Aline Pellegrino
Brazilian association football player, born 1982
Marco Pellegrino
Argentine footballer, born 2002
Mateo Pellegrino
Argentine professional footballer, born 2001
Maximiliano Pellegrino
Argentine footballer, born 1980
Charles R. Pellegrino
American novelist, born 1953
Nicholas the Pilgrim
Bizantine saint, 1075–1094

Notable Pellegrinos come mostly from Argentina (3), the United States (2) and Brazil (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Pellegrino

Pellegrino has the Soundex code P426, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P426.

Other Italian surnames

All 798 Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Pellegrino come from?: Borrowed from Italian Pellegrino.
How common is the surname Pellegrino?: 7,398 people in the United States had the surname Pellegrino in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 41,734 Americans. It ranked 4,781st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pellegrino?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Pellegrino identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Pellegrino?: Mauricio Pellegrino, Argentine association football manager, followed by Mark Pellegrino.
Where is the surname Pellegrino most common?: Wikidata records people named Pellegrino in Argentina, the United States and Brazil and 2 other countries.
Is the surname Pellegrino getting more or less common?: More common. 7,237 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,398 in 2010, up 2.2%.