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The Piccirillo surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,066 people carried this name — #14,458 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 142,900 people counted. That is up 14% from 1,817 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Piccirillo surname

Borrowed from Italian Piccirillo, itself from Neapolitan piccerillo (“small, little”).

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Piccirillo» (English), 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 415 people named Piccirillo 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 255
City of Buenos Aires 59
Santa Fe 59
Córdoba 16
Catamarca 14
Río Negro 12

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

In Switzerland’s population statistics

134 people named Piccirillo live in Switzerland.

They live in 10 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

Zurich 34
Thurgau 34
Geneva 20
St. Gallen 18
Ticino 7
Glarus 6
Lucerne 5
Valais 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.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 72 people named Piccirillo.

15 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 5 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 15
Bouches-du-Rhône 46
Essonne 6
Val-de-Marne 3
Haute-Savoie 1
Paris 1

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

When the index is not enough

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

Every page in the index is free and stays free. The Heritage Volume is the long form: the full paper trail, the arms, the crossing — bound, and yours.

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