Scala

At the 2020 census, 2,954 Americans bore the surname Scala — 10,371st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 101,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,954
Rank: 10,371st
How common: 1 in 101,000
Per 100,000: 0.99

Where the name comes from

Origin Italian

As an Italian surname, from Scala.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.3%
Hispanic or Latino 6.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Scala

Nevio Scala (born 1947)Italian association football player and manager
Cangrande I della Scala (1291–1329)Italian noble
Beatrice Regina della Scala (1333–1384)wife of Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan
Gia Scala (1934–1972)American actress
Delia Scala (1929–2004)Italian actress, dancer and singer
Alberto I della Scala (1300–1301)Italian noble
Alberto II della Scala (1306–1352)Italian noble
Cansignorio della Scala (1340–1375)Lord of Verona

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

Surnames like Scala

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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.