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

Scarantino, 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 Scarantino surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Scarantino in America

Scarantino is the 49999th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Scarantino surname appeared 419 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 Scarantino.

We can also compare 2010 data for Scarantino 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 Scarantino

The surname Scarantino originates from Italy, believed to have first appeared in the medieval era around the 12th century. It is a locational name derived from the Italian town of Scaranto, located in the southern region of Calabria. The root of the name likely comes from the Greek word "skaranti," meaning a small rocky place or outcrop.

One of the earliest recorded mentions of the Scarantino name can be found in an Italian land deed from 1278, where a certain "Giovanni Scarantino" is listed as a landowner in the town of Cosenza, near Scaranto. This suggests the name was already well-established in the region by the late 13th century.

In the 15th century, the Scarantino name appears in Sicilian historical records, indicating that members of the family had migrated across the Strait of Messina to the island of Sicily. A notable example is Nicolo Scarantino, born in 1432 in Palermo, who was a renowned philosopher and scholar at the University of Padua.

The Scarantino name also has a connection to the powerful House of Borgia, with records showing a Maria Scarantino serving as a lady-in-waiting to Lucrezia Borgia, the infamous daughter of Pope Alexander VI, in the late 15th century.

During the 16th century, the Scarantino family expanded throughout Italy, with branches appearing in cities like Naples, Rome, and Florence. One notable figure was Antonio Scarantino (1512-1589), a Florentine merchant and banker who played a key role in financing the construction of the iconic Duomo cathedral in Florence.

As the Scarantino name spread across Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, it took on various spellings and regional variations, such as Scarantini, Scarantone, and Scarantoni. In France, for instance, there was a prominent family of Scarantons who were involved in the wine trade in Bordeaux during the 1700s.

Other noteworthy individuals with the Scarantino surname include Giuseppe Scarantino (1743-1815), an Italian composer and violinist who performed at the court of King Ferdinand IV of Naples, and Francesca Scarantino (1869-1945), a celebrated operatic soprano who sang leading roles at La Scala in Milan and the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Scarantino

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

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

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