Defeo

2,712 people in the United States were counted with the surname Defeo in the 2020 census, making it the 11,162nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 110,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,712
Rank: 11,162nd
How common: 1 in 110,000
Per 100,000: 0.91

Where the name comes from

Origin Italian

Borrowed from Italian De Feo.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Notable people called Defeo

Ronald DeFeo Jr. (1951–2021)American mass murderer

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

Surnames like Defeo

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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.