The Pugliese surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 4,997 people carried this name — #6,279 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 54,100 people counted.
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In Switzerland’s population statistics
306 people named Pugliese live in Switzerland.
They live in 19 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 287 people named Pugliese.
Most of them — 165 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 19 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.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 79 people named Pugliese 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.
In print
Pugliese in American newspapers,
1895–1962.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 1,987 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Pugliese,
with a public archive behind them.
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Vincenzo Pugliese Giannone 1819–1892 · politician -
Emanuele Pugliese 1874–1967 · soldier -
Osvaldo Pugliese 1905–1995 · composer -
Vittorio Pugliese 1905–1965 · politician -
Sergio Pugliese 1908–1965 · screenwriter
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 109 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Pugliese.
- Puente 11,533 · U.S. census
- Puerta 912 · U.S. census
- Puertas 442 · U.S. census
- Puerto 1,130 · U.S. census
- Puga 5,224 · U.S. census
- Puglia 1,116 · U.S. census
- Pugliesi 187 · U.S. census
- Puglisi 2,541 · U.S. census
- Puig 1,926 · U.S. census
- Pujol 943 · U.S. census
- Pujols 718 · U.S. census
- Pulcini 429 · U.S. census
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