How common is the surname Scalia?

1,801 people in the United States had the surname Scalia in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 171,430 Americans. It ranked 16,079th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Scalia?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Scalia identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Scalia?

Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2016, followed by Jack Scalia.

Where is the surname Scalia most common?

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

Is the surname Scalia getting more or less common?

More common. 1,675 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,801 in 2010, up 7.5%.

The surname Scalia

An Italian surname, carried by 1,801 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Scalia is more common than 90.1% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Scalia.

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 1,801 people named Scalia in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 171,430 Americans. That is up 7.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,675.

#16,079

rank among US surnames

1,801

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+7.5%

change since 2000 (was #15,937)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,071	Vales	1,802	171,335
#16,079	Wynkoop	1,801	171,430
#16,087	Shehan	1,800	171,525

Who is named Scalia

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

94% of people named Scalia identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

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

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Scalias

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Antonin Scalia
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2016
Jack Scalia
American actor, born 1950
Eugene Scalia
American lawyer, born 1963

Notable Scalias come mostly from the United States (2) and Italy (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Scalia

Scalia has the Soundex code S400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S400.

Other Italian surnames

All 798 Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Scalia come from?: Borrowed from Italian Scalia.
How common is the surname Scalia?: 1,801 people in the United States had the surname Scalia in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 171,430 Americans. It ranked 16,079th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Scalia?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Scalia identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Scalia?: Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2016, followed by Jack Scalia.
Where is the surname Scalia most common?: Wikidata records people named Scalia in the United States and Italy.
Is the surname Scalia getting more or less common?: More common. 1,675 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,801 in 2010, up 7.5%.