The Grasso surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 7,768 people carried this name — #4,224 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 34,700 people counted.
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In Switzerland’s population statistics
568 people named Grasso live in Switzerland.
They live in 20 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 342 people named Grasso.
Most of them — 197 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 26 départements, most often Alpes-Maritimes.
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.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 45 people named Grasso live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Liège.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Grasso,
with a public archive behind them.
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Giacomo Grasso 1858–1932 · lawyer -
Gerardo Grasso 1860–1937 · composer -
Carlo Gregorio Maria Grasso 1869–1929 · Catholic priest -
Giovanni Grasso 1873–1930 · actor -
Giovanni Grasso 1888–1963 · actor
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 164 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Grasso.
- Grappin 137 · U.S. census
- Gras 630 · U.S. census
- Grass 4,468 · U.S. census
- Grasse 581 · U.S. census
- Grasser 1,217 · U.S. census
- Grassi 2,566 · U.S. census
- Grat 122 · U.S. census
- Grathwohl 354 · U.S. census
- Gratias 115 · U.S. census
- Gratiot 117 · U.S. census
- Graton 219 · U.S. census
- Gratton 2,108 · U.S. census
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