Cicero

At the 2020 census, 3,317 Americans bore the surname Cicero — 9,404th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 90,100.

By the numbers

People: 3,317
Rank: 9,404th
How common: 1 in 90,100
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Latin Cicerō, a cognomen in reference to warts (cicer (“chickpea”)). The Latinate form, based on the nominative, displaced Middle English Ciceroun, based on the oblique stem.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cicero described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 86.4%
Hispanic or Latino 7.0%
Black, not Hispanic 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Notable people called Cicero

Roger Cicero (1970–2016)German pop and jazz singer
Eugen Cicero (1940–1997)Romanian-German jazz pianist

People named Cicero with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cicero

Ciccone

Also a first name

Cicero has been given to 1,453 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1920. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.