Gigante surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Gigante surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,116 people carried this name — #22,924 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 263,200 people counted. That is up 9% from 1,022 in 2000.

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In Argentina’s national register

At least 631 people named Gigante 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 map

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 269
Córdoba 122
City of Buenos Aires 82
Salta 72
Santa Fe 70
Río Negro 16

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 143 people named Gigante.

Most of them — 78 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 17 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

Born outside France 78
Bouches-du-Rhône 22
Savoie 7
Haute-Marne 6
Paris 6
Var 5
Meurthe-et-Moselle 4
Isère 3
Vosges 2

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

106 people named Gigante live in Switzerland.

They live in 10 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Vaud 31
Zurich 26
Ticino 15
Geneva 10
Jura 6
Schwyz 4
Basel-Stadt 4
Lucerne 4

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.

Who carried it

People named Gigante,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Giacinto Gigante
    Giacinto Gigante 1806–1876 · etcher
  • Teodoro Gigante 1750–1850 · architect
  • Gaetano Gigante 1770–1840 · printmaker
  • Raffaele Gigante 1819–1896 · politician
  • Achille Gigante 1823–1846 · lithographer
  • Silvino Gigante 1878–1946 · translator

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

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