# Sorrentino (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/sorrentino/  
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) | 4,956 |
| US rank (2010) | 6,805 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 62,297 people |
| Change since 2000 | 0.0% (4,954 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Italian Sorrentino, from sorrentino (“Sorrentine”), ultimately from Latin Surrentum (“Sorrento”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Sorrentino 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) | 93% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.2% |
| Two or more races | 1.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Sorrentino in the United States and Argentina.

## People named Sorrentino

- Michael Sorrentino, American television personality
- Fernando Sorrentino, Argentine writer

## Similar surnames

Scranton.

## 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.