Rizzuto
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname from Sicilian
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɹitˈsutoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rizzuto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 116K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 124K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 125K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 116K (inferred from the name graph)
2,316 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a surname from Sicilian
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rizzuto 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,316 | 1 in 144K | 2.3K | Rizzuto | 104 |
| AR Argentina | 367 | 1 in 124K | 367 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 220 | 1 in 962K | 220 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 101 | 1 in 116K | 101 | Rizzuto | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 67 | 1 in 125K | 67 | Rizzuto | 5 |
2,316 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Rizzuto is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, de Rizzo, com sufixo singular -uto
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Ricci
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Angelo Antonio Rizzutob. 1906USAmerican photographer (1906–1967)
- Phil Rizzutob. 1917USAmerican baseball player (1917-2007)
- Nicolo Rizzutob. 1924ITCanadian mobster
- Pietro Rizzutob. 1934CACanadian politician (1934-1997)
- Leandro Rizzutob. 1938USAmerican billionaire businessman (1938–2017)
- Garth Rizzutob. 1947CACanadian ice hockey player
- Calogero Rizzutob. 1955ITItalian cultural heritage official
- Leandro Rizzuto Jr.b. 1962USAmerican businessman
- Calogero Rizzutob. 1992DEGerman association football player
- Sergio Rizzutoactor
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 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.3K | #13,195 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,399 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,067 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 367 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 220 | #33,992 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 101 | #15,462 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 67 | #15,019 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Rizzuto mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname from Sicilian Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rizzuto?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹitˈsutoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rizzuto have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Rizzuto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rizzuto.
- Where is Rizzuto most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rizzuto is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 116 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rizzuto?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,316 people named Rizzuto in 2010, about 1 in 144 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rizzutoThe 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, “Rizzuto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.