Lorenzo

Lorenzo is the 1,873rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 18,804 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 15,900.

By the numbers

People: 18,804
Rank: 1,873rd
How common: 1 in 15,900
Per 100,000: 6.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Italian, Spanish

Ultimately from Latin Laurentius.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 68.7%
White, not Hispanic 17.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 9.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Lorenzo

Giovanni Di Lorenzo (born 1993)Italian association football player
Jorge Lorenzo (born 1987)Spanish professional motorcycle road racer
Leonardo De Lorenzo (1875–1962)Italian flautist and music educator
Ruth Lorenzo (born 1982)Spanish singer
Néstor Lorenzo (born 1966)Argentine footballer and manager
Juan Carlos Lorenzo (1922–2001)Argentine association manager and football player
Anselmo Lorenzo (1841–1914)Spanish author
María Sánchez Lorenzo (born 1977)Spanish tennis player

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

Surnames like Lorenzo

Also a first name

Lorenzo has been given to 86,066 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2025. 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.