Find out how popular the last name Bacci is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Bacci.

Bacci, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Bacci surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Bacci in America

Bacci is the 40672nd most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Bacci surname appeared 537 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Bacci.

We can also compare 2010 data for Bacci to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Bacci

The surname Bacci originates from Italy, where it first appeared in the late medieval period. It is believed to be derived from the medieval Italian word "baccio," meaning a kiss or a caress, which may have been a nickname for an affectionate person or a term of endearment.

Bacci is particularly associated with the regions of Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna in central Italy. Some of the earliest recorded instances of the name can be found in historical documents from cities like Florence, Siena, and Bologna, dating back to the 13th and 14th centuries.

One notable historical reference comes from the famous Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani, who mentions a Bacci family among the prominent noble families of Florence in his chronicle "Nuova Cronica," written in the early 14th century.

Among the earliest recorded bearers of the Bacci surname was Pietro Bacci, a Florentine merchant and banker who lived in the late 13th century. Another early example is Baccio Bandinelli, a renowned Renaissance sculptor from Florence, who was born in 1493 and died in 1560.

The name Bacci has also been associated with various place names in Italy, such as Baccio, a village in the province of Reggio Emilia, and Bacciochio, a former castle in the province of Arezzo, Tuscany. These place names may have influenced the spelling and pronunciation of the surname in different regions.

Throughout history, several notable individuals have borne the surname Bacci. One example is Andrea Bacci, an Italian painter and architect from the late 16th and early 17th centuries, who was born in 1524 and died in 1600. Another is Girolamo Bacci, a 17th-century Italian mathematician and astronomer, born in 1639 and died in 1727.

In the 19th century, Luigi Bacci was an Italian historian and writer who lived from 1817 to 1900. More recently, Ubaldo Bacci was an Italian politician and lawyer who served as a member of the Italian Senate from 1953 to 1968, born in 1892 and died in 1970.

Lastly, the Italian artist and sculptor Baccio Bandinelli, mentioned earlier, is considered one of the most renowned individuals to bear the Bacci surname in history, renowned for his works in marble and bronze during the Italian Renaissance.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Bacci

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Bacci.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Bacci was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Bacci has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Bacci was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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