The surname Speranza
An Italian surname, carried by 1,408 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex S165
Origin
Italian origin
Borrowed from Italian Speranza.
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 1,408 people named Speranza in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 219,280 Americans. That is down 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,430.
Who is named Speranza
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Speranza identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 96%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
- Two or more races 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Speranza
Speranza has the Soundex code S165, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S165.
Other Italian surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Speranza come from?
- Borrowed from Italian Speranza.
- How common is the surname Speranza?
- 1,408 people in the United States had the surname Speranza in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 219,280 Americans. It ranked 19,257th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Speranza?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Speranza identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Speranza getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,430 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,408 in 2010, down 1.5%.