Rizzo

17,631 people in the United States were counted with the surname Rizzo in the 2020 census, making it the 2,001st most common in the country. That is about one person in 17,000.

By the numbers

People: 17,631
Rank: 2,001st
How common: 1 in 17,000
Per 100,000: 5.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Italian

Borrowed from Old it, nap Rizzo and/or front scn Rizzu.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.8%
Hispanic or Latino 7.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Rizzo

Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo (born 1940)Italian diplomat
Francesco Rizzo (1943–2022)Italian footballer
Matteo Rizzo (born 1998)Italian figure skater
Anthony Rizzo (born 1989)American professional baseball player
Marc Rizzo (born 1977)American guitarist
Alfredo Rizzo (1902–1991)Italian actor
Luca Rizzo (born 1992)Italian association football player
Pedro Rizzo (born 1974)Brazilian mixed martial artist

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

Surnames like Rizzo

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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.