How common is the surname Santoro?

8,713 people in the United States had the surname Santoro in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 35,435 Americans. It ranked 4,076th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Santoro?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Santoro identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Santoro?

Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor, followed by Miguel Ángel Santoro.

Where is the surname Santoro most common?

Wikidata records people named Santoro in Brazil, Argentina and the United States.

Is the surname Santoro getting more or less common?

More common. 8,587 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,713 in 2010, up 1.5%.

The surname Santoro

An Italian surname, carried by 8,713 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S536

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Santoro is more common than 97.5% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Santoro.

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 8,713 people named Santoro in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 35,435 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,587.

#4,076

rank among US surnames

8,713

people in 2010

3.0

per 100,000 Americans

+1.5%

change since 2000 (was #3,789)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,072	Kish	8,725	35,386
#4,074	Geer	8,717	35,419
#4,075	Foltz	8,714	35,431
#4,076	Santoro	8,713	35,435

Who is named Santoro

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

93% of people named Santoro identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.1%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Santoros

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Rodrigo Santoro
Brazilian actor, born 1975
Miguel Ángel Santoro
Argentine footballer, born 1942
Cláudio Santoro
Brazilian composer (1919–1989)
Gerri Santoro
American manslaughter victim (1935–1964)

Notable Santoros come mostly from Brazil (2), Argentina (1) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Santoro

Santoro has the Soundex code S536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S536.

Other Italian surnames

All 798 Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Santoro come from?: Borrowed from Italian Santoro.
How common is the surname Santoro?: 8,713 people in the United States had the surname Santoro in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 35,435 Americans. It ranked 4,076th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Santoro?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Santoro identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Santoro?: Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor, followed by Miguel Ángel Santoro.
Where is the surname Santoro most common?: Wikidata records people named Santoro in Brazil, Argentina and the United States.
Is the surname Santoro getting more or less common?: More common. 8,587 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,713 in 2010, up 1.5%.