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The surname Piazza

A surname, carried by 8,372 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex P200

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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). Piazza is more common than 97.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 8,372 people named Piazza in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 36,878 Americans. That is up 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,311.

#4,232
rank among US surnames
8,372
people in 2010
2.8
per 100,000 Americans
+0.7%
change since 2000 (was #3,928)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#4,224Rausch8,39836,764
#4,225Dion8,39536,777
#4,226Cade8,39136,795
#4,227Aguiar8,39036,799
#4,228Cave8,38936,804
#4,229Dagostino8,38836,808
#4,230Haggard8,38436,826

Who is named Piazza

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

93% of people named Piazza identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 93%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.7%
  • Two or more races 0.9%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Piazzas

5 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

  • Vincent Piazza
    American actor, born 1976
  • Mike Piazza
    American baseball player, born 1968
  • Osvaldo Piazza
    Argentine footballer and manager (born 1947)
  • Ben Piazza
    American actor (1933–1991)
  • Rod Piazza
    American musician, born 1947

Notable Piazzas come mostly from the United States (4) and Argentina (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Piazza

Piazza has the Soundex code P200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P200.

Questions

How common is the surname Piazza?
8,372 people in the United States had the surname Piazza in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 36,878 Americans. It ranked 4,232nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Piazza?
In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Piazza identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Piazza?
Vincent Piazza, American actor, followed by Mike Piazza.
Where is the surname Piazza most common?
Wikidata records people named Piazza in the United States and Argentina.
Is the surname Piazza getting more or less common?
More common. 8,311 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,372 in 2010, up 0.7%.