The Aversa surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,334 people carried this name — #20,047 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 222,200 people counted. That is up 10% from 1,217 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Aversa surname
A surname transferred from the place name.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Aversa» (Italian), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 748 people named Aversa live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
97 people named Aversa live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 62 people named Aversa.
14 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 8 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Who carried it
People named Aversa,
with a public archive behind them.
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Tommaso Aversa 1623–1663 · poet -
Giuseppe Aversa 1862–1917 · Catholic priest -
Raffaele Aversa 1589–1657 · theologian
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Blacaman 1902–1956 · actor
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Blacaman 1902–1949 · actor
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Raffaele Aversa 1906–1944 · partisan
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Aversa.
- Avedikian 184 · U.S. census
- Avedissian 267 · U.S. census
- Avella 745 · U.S. census
- Avellan 346 · U.S. census
- Avellaneda 2,090 · U.S. census
- Avena 895 · U.S. census
- Avila 97,314 · U.S. census
- Aviles 25,716 · U.S. census
- Avis 2,156 · U.S. census
- Avon 436 · U.S. census
- Avram 494 · U.S. census
- Avril 496 · U.S. census
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