Rizzo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: first-person singular present indicative of rizzare
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɹɪzow/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rizzo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 18K
- UYUruguay1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 437 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈40,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
first-person singular present indicative of rizzare
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rizzo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #632 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Rizzo | 107 |
| US United States | — | 18,605 | 1 in 18K | 19K | Rizzo | 437 |
| BR Brazil | — | 8,514 | 1 in 25K | 8.5K | — | 6 |
| AR Argentina | — | 6,128 | 1 in 7.4K | 6.1K | — | 3 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 5,270 | 1 in 3.2K | 5.3K | Rizzo | 29 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,583 | 1 in 5.3K | 1.6K | Rizzo | 38 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,355 | 1 in 2.5K | 1.4K | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names; the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rizzo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, variante difundida de Riccio
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alfredo Rizzob. 1902ITItalian actor (1902-1991)
- Carlo Rizzob. 1907ITItalian actor (1907-1979)
- Frank Rizzob. 1920USAmerican mayor (1920-1991)
- Gianni Rizzob. 1924ITItalian actor (1924–1992)
- Giacomo Rizzob. 1939ITItalian actor
- Alessandro Minuto-Rizzob. 1940ITItalian diplomat
- Hélène Ségarab. 1971FRnot in their usual nameFrench singer
- Anthony Rizzob. 1989USAmerican professional baseball player
- Luca Rizzob. 1992ITItalian association football player
- Matteo Rizzob. 1998ITItalian figure skater
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 19K | #1,943 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 18K | #1,784 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 18K | #2,001 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 8.5K | #1,490 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 6.1K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 5.3K | #738 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 5.3K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.6K | #652 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.4K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2008 | 123 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1999 | 105 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1995 | 105 | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rizzo mean, and where does it come from?
- first-person singular present indicative of rizzare Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rizzo?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɪzow/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rizzo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 40 thousand people named Rizzo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rizzo.
- How common is the name Rizzo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,605 people named Rizzo in 2010, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Rizzo compared with other names?
- In Italy, Rizzo is the 632nd most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rizzo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rizzoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rizzo” — the 632nd most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.