How common is the surname Recchia?

1,248 people in the United States had the surname Recchia in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 247,392 Americans. It ranked 21,057th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Recchia?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Recchia identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Recchia getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,282 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,248 in 2010, down 2.7%.

The surname Recchia

An Italian nickname surname, carried by 1,248 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex R200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Recchia is more common than 87% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

From the Italian surname, from orecchia (“ear”) (possibly a nickname).

Recchia is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

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 1,248 people named Recchia in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 247,392 Americans. That is down 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,282.

#21,057

rank among US surnames

1,248

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-2.7%

change since 2000 (was #19,491)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#21,048	Zartman	1,249	247,194
#21,057	Breyer	1,248	247,392

Who is named Recchia

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

94% of people named Recchia identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Recchia

Recchia has the Soundex code R200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R200.

Other Italian surnames

All 798 Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Recchia come from?: From the Italian surname, from orecchia (“ear”) (possibly a nickname).
How common is the surname Recchia?: 1,248 people in the United States had the surname Recchia in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 247,392 Americans. It ranked 21,057th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Recchia?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Recchia identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Recchia?: Recchia is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
Is the surname Recchia getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,282 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,248 in 2010, down 2.7%.