# Scalia (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/scalia/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Italian.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Italian |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,801 |
| US rank (2010) | 16,079 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 171,430 people |
| Change since 2000 | +7.5% (1,675 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Scalia.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Scalia in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 94% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.5% |
| Two or more races | 1.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Scalia in the United States and Italy.

## People named Scalia

- Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2016
- Jack Scalia, American actor
- Eugene Scalia, American lawyer

## Similar surnames

Scala, Skala, Scally, Sala, Schall, Schaal, Salah, Salih, Sewell, Shelley, Shell, Schell.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.