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

Giacometti, 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 Giacometti surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Giacometti in America

Giacometti is the 62045th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Giacometti surname appeared 323 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 Giacometti.

We can also compare 2010 data for Giacometti 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 Giacometti

The surname Giacometti originated in Italy during the medieval era. It is derived from the Italian personal name Giacomo, which is the equivalent of James in English. The name likely arose as a patronymic, meaning "son of Giacomo" or "descendant of Giacomo."

One of the earliest recorded instances of the surname Giacometti can be found in the Codice Diplomatico della Lombardia Medievale, a collection of medieval documents from the region of Lombardy in northern Italy. In this collection, there are references to individuals with the surname Giacometti in the 13th and 14th centuries.

The surname Giacometti was particularly prevalent in the cities of Milan and Bergamo, as well as the surrounding areas of Lombardy. It is believed that the name may have originated in one of these cities or nearby towns and villages.

Throughout history, there have been several notable individuals who bore the surname Giacometti. One of the earliest was Gian Giacomo Giacometti, a 16th-century painter from the city of Brescia, who was active between 1520 and 1550.

In the 18th century, Giovanni Giacometti was a prominent architect and engineer from the town of Morbio Inferiore in the Swiss canton of Ticino. He was born in 1728 and is known for his work on several churches and public buildings in the region.

The most famous bearer of the surname Giacometti is undoubtedly the Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, who was born in 1901 in the village of Borgonovo, near the town of Stampa in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. His distinctive sculptural style, featuring elongated and attenuated figures, made him one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. He died in 1966.

Another notable Giacometti was Zaccaria Giacometti, an Italian painter and engraver who was active in Venice during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. He was born in the town of Borgo San Sepolcro in 1550 and is known for his religious paintings and engravings.

Finally, Augusto Giacometti was a Swiss painter and writer who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born in 1877 in the village of Stampa, Switzerland, and is known for his landscape paintings depicting the Swiss Alps and his writings on art and literature.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Giacometti

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

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 Giacometti 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 Giacometti 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 Giacometti was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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