How common is the surname Sgro?

1,165 people in the United States had the surname Sgro in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 265,018 Americans. It ranked 22,173rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Sgro?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Sgro identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Sgro getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,167 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,165 in 2010, down 0.2%.

The surname Sgro

An Italian surname, carried by 1,165 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sgro is more common than 86.3% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Sicilian Sgrò. Compare also Sicilian Sgroi and Isgrò.

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 1,165 people named Sgro in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 265,018 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,167.

#22,173

rank among US surnames

1,165

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-0.2%

change since 2000 (was #20,995)

Who is named Sgro

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

95% of people named Sgro identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.6%
Two or more races 0.7%

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 Sgro

Sgroi

Sgro has the Soundex code S600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S600.

Other Italian surnames

All 798 Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Sgro come from?: Borrowed from Sicilian Sgrò. Compare also Sicilian Sgroi and Isgrò.
How common is the surname Sgro?: 1,165 people in the United States had the surname Sgro in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 265,018 Americans. It ranked 22,173rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sgro?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Sgro identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Sgro getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,167 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,165 in 2010, down 0.2%.