Given name & surname · also Italian and Neapolitan
Rizzo
Rizzo is a surname from Italian and Neapolitan, ultimately from Sicilian. It is used in English and Italian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Rizzo comes from Italian and Neapolitan, and ultimately from Sicilian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Italian and Neapolitan Rizzo, from Sicilian Rizzu.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2016. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Rizzo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 55
- 50 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −10%
- Easing
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2017. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 105 as a first name in 2020; 17,631 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Rizzo’s family of names
In English usage, Rizzo as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Sicilian form RIZZU. In Greek usage, Rizzo as a surname is a transliteration of Ρίζζο.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Appears in
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