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    The surname Sortino

    An Italian surname, carried by 737 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex S635

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sortino is more common than 80.6% of them.

    Origin

    Italian origin

    Borrowed from Italian Sortino, adapted borrowing from Sicilian Xurtinu ~ Sciurtinu. Doublet of Sciortino.

    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 737 people named Sortino in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 418,922 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 726.

    #31,412
    rank among US surnames
    737
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.5%
    change since 2000 (was #30,383)

    Who is named Sortino

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

    95% of people named Sortino identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • Two or more races 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Sortino

    Sortino has the Soundex code S635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S635.

    Other Italian surnames

    All 798 Italian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Sortino come from?
    Borrowed from Italian Sortino, adapted borrowing from Sicilian Xurtinu ~ Sciurtinu. Doublet of Sciortino.
    How common is the surname Sortino?
    737 people in the United States had the surname Sortino in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 418,922 Americans. It ranked 31,412th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sortino?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Sortino identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Sortino getting more or less common?
    More common. 726 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 737 in 2010, up 1.5%.