Lanza

At the 2020 census, 5,464 Americans bore the surname Lanza — 6,040th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 54,700.

By the numbers

People: 5,464
Rank: 6,040th
How common: 1 in 54,700
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Italian

Borrowed from Italian Lanza.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 66.1%
Hispanic or Latino 29.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Lanza

Mario Lanza (1921–1959)American tenor and actor
Giovanni Lanza (1810–1882)Italian politician
Lanza del Vasto (1901–1981)philosopher, poet, artist, activist
Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo (1925–2017)cardinal and nuncio
Damián Lanza (born 1982)Ecuadorian footballer
Filippo Lanza (born 1991)Italian volleyball player and beach volleyball player
Jack Lanza (1935–2021)American professional wrestler
Adam Lanza (1992–2012)American spree killer; perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

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

Surnames like Lanza

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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.