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    The surname Saitta

    An Italian surname, carried by 964 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S300

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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). Saitta is more common than 84.2% of them.

    Origin

    Italian origin

    Borrowed from Italian Saitta, Italianization of Sicilian Sajitta, from sajitta (“arrow”), from sagitta.

    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 964 people named Saitta in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 320,275 Americans. That is down 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 991.

    #25,601
    rank among US surnames
    964
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -2.7%
    change since 2000 (was #23,815)

    Who is named Saitta

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

    91% of people named Saitta identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.0%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    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 Saitta

    Saitta has the Soundex code S300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S300.

    Other Italian surnames

    All 798 Italian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Saitta come from?
    Borrowed from Italian Saitta, Italianization of Sicilian Sajitta, from sajitta (“arrow”), from sagitta.
    How common is the surname Saitta?
    964 people in the United States had the surname Saitta in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 320,275 Americans. It ranked 25,601st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Saitta?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Saitta identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Saitta getting more or less common?
    Less common. 991 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 964 in 2010, down 2.7%.