Best Italian Surname Search

Best Italian Surname Search is an update from a our previous post from March 3.  Updated with some new information.  I attempted to find mostly free ones, but a couple may ask for sign up.

This is a really cool site as it gives the origin for your name, also variations and popularity in the US — Behind the Name

This is a pretty neat one as it shows the map of Italy with the names by region, heat map style — Brilliant Maps

This one gives a heat map in a different style, and other countries as well — Italian Surname Map

One more map, in a different style — Italian Names

Surnames by region, type in a surname for the region and you get a list, you can also get the list of the most common names in a region — Italian Surnames

This site gives a list of names by region also — Italy Heritage

Italian Side gives you location and pronunciation — Italian Side

Seven facts about Italian surnames from Ancestry.com  — Ancestry Italian Surnames

Interesting article on the origin of Italian Surnames  ( over 1,000,000 )– La Gazzetta

Extensive Italian Surname Searches  from BYU — BYU Italian List

Brief article on Italian Surname Searches  from Ancestral Findings

The ten most common Italian Surname searches in the US

1. Russo (45,787 people)

2. Marino (26,789 people)

3. Romano (24,280 people)

4. Rossi (23,879 people)

5. Bruno (22,917 people)

6. Esposito (21,438 people)

7. Caruso (19,400 people)

8. Rizzo (17,368 people)

9. Gallo (16,937 people)

10. Greco (16,178 people)

Some good articles 

Interesting article on where women cannot take there husbands surname Time

The 20 most popular names from the Hipster Historian.  No surprise the names above are included, but he gives the meaning.

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