Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Piccirillo

    An Italian surname, carried by 2,066 people in the United States.

    4 syllables Soundex P264

    Piccirillo: #14,458 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Piccirillo #14,458, 2,066 people Piccirillo: #14,458 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Piccirillo #14,458, 2,066 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Piccirillo is more common than 91.1% of them.

    Origin

    Italian origin

    Borrowed from Italian Piccirillo, itself from Neapolitan piccerillo (“small, little”).

    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 2,066 people named Piccirillo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 149,441 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,817.

    #14,458
    rank among US surnames
    2,066
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +13.7%
    change since 2000 (was #14,935)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #14,453Lobb2,067149,369
    #14,458Fray2,066149,441
    #14,465Banes2,065149,514

    Who is named Piccirillo

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

    94% of people named Piccirillo identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.5%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    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 Piccirillo

    Piccirillo has the Soundex code P264, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P264.

    Other Italian surnames

    All 798 Italian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Piccirillo come from?
    Borrowed from Italian Piccirillo, itself from Neapolitan piccerillo (“small, little”).
    How common is the surname Piccirillo?
    2,066 people in the United States had the surname Piccirillo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 149,441 Americans. It ranked 14,458th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Piccirillo?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Piccirillo identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Piccirillo getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,817 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,066 in 2010, up 14%.