Russo

At the 2020 census, 45,790 Americans bore the surname Russo — 740th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 6,528.

By the numbers

People: 45,790
Rank: 740th
How common: 1 in 6,528
Per 100,000: 15.3

Where the name comes from

From the Sicilian surname Russu, from russu (“redhead”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.3%
Hispanic or Latino 6.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Russo

Rene Russo (born 1954)American actress and model
Alessia Russo (born 1999)English footballer
Richard Russo (born 1949)American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter
James Russo (born 1953)American film and television actor
Miguel Ángel Russo (1956–2025)Argentine footballer and manager
Clemente Russo (born 1982)boxer
Gianni Russo (born 1943)American actor
Deanna Russo (born 1979)American television actress

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

Surnames like Russo

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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.