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    The surname Piro

    A surname, carried by 1,775 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P600

    Piro: #16,254 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Piro #16,254, 1,775 people Piro: #16,254 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Piro #16,254, 1,775 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Piro is more common than 90% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,775 people named Piro in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 173,941 Americans. That is up 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,674.

    #16,254
    rank among US surnames
    1,775
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6%
    change since 2000 (was #15,942)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,247Haddon1,777173,745
    #16,250Saxe1,776173,843
    #16,254Ashcroft1,775173,941
    #16,261Kinkead1,774174,039

    Who is named Piro

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

    89% of people named Piro identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.1%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Piro

    Piro has the Soundex code P600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P600.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Piro?
    1,775 people in the United States had the surname Piro in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 173,941 Americans. It ranked 16,254th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Piro?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Piro identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Piro getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,674 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,775 in 2010, up 6.0%.