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The GRECO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 17,013 1941 0.006 63
United States (1880 census) 18 75525 0 0
Change since 1880 +16995 +73584 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 655 2472 0.004 40
United Kingdom 311 12442 0.001 7
Top States for GRECO by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 3,705 396 0.020 195
Pennsylvania 1,718 712 0.014 140
New Jersey 1,629 435 0.019 194
Florida 1,548 1274 0.010 97
California 1,334 2259 0.004 39
Top States for GRECO by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Connecticut 776 419 0.023 228
New York 3,705 396 0.020 195
New Jersey 1,629 435 0.019 194
Rhode Island 190 708 0.018 181
Pennsylvania 1,718 712 0.014 140

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GRECO live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GRECO represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GRECO in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GRECO by picking someone at random in Connecticut than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GRECO

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Italy

Language of origin: Italian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GRECO surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GRECO in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 454 2.67
Mixed Race 174 1.02
Asian/Pacific 112 0.66
Black/African American 82 0.48
White (Caucasian) 16,178 95.09
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.09

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GRECO surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GRECO in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GRECO.

Similar names to GRECO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRECO.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GRECO

The following words are slight variants of GRECO that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.