# Viscuso (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/viscuso/  
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 [in turn from Sicilian].

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Italian |
| Type | nickname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 525 |
| US rank (2010) | 41,426 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 588,087 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.8% (506 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Viscuso, a nickname from Sicilian viscusu (“tough, tenacious”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Viscuso 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) | 95% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |

## Similar surnames

Vasquez, Vazquez, Vasques, Vegas, Vacek, Voges.

## 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.