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

The Nigro surname

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 4,794 people carried this name — #6,526 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 56,200 people counted.

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In Switzerland’s population statistics

350 people named Nigro live in Switzerland.

They live in 17 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Zurich 76
Vaud 55
Geneva 36
Aargau 29
Bern 25
Ticino 20
Schaffhausen 18
Basel-Landschaft 18

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 80 people named Nigro.

Most of them — 54 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 15 départements, most often Seine-Saint-Denis.

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

Where they were born

Born outside France 54
Seine-Saint-Denis 5
Paris 3
Moselle 3
Bouches-du-Rhône 2
Marne 2
Savoie 2
Hauts-de-Seine 1
Var 1

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 29 people named Nigro 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 Hainaut.

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

Where they live today

Hainaut 13
Limburg 8
Namur 8

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Nigro is.
A volume says what happened to it.

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