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    The surname Scalzo

    An Italian surname, carried by 2,411 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S420

    Scalzo: #12,794 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Scalzo #12,794, 2,411 people Scalzo: #12,794 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Scalzo #12,794, 2,411 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Scalzo is more common than 92.1% of them.

    Origin

    Italian origin

    Borrowed from Italian Scalzo.

    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 2,411 people named Scalzo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 128,057 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,412.

    #12,794
    rank among US surnames
    2,411
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    0%
    change since 2000 (was #11,884)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,785Klock2,413127,951
    #12,789Sailor2,412128,004
    #12,794Scalzo2,411128,057
    #12,795Schueller2,410128,110
    #12,802Tanguay2,409128,163

    Who is named Scalzo

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

    95% of people named Scalzo identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    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 Scalzo

    Scalzo has the Soundex code S420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S420.

    Other Italian surnames

    All 798 Italian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Scalzo come from?
    Borrowed from Italian Scalzo.
    How common is the surname Scalzo?
    2,411 people in the United States had the surname Scalzo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 128,057 Americans. It ranked 12,794th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Scalzo?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Scalzo identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Scalzo getting more or less common?
    About as common. 2,412 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,411 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.