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

The Ragusa surname

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 2,471 people carried this name — #11,642 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 108,700 people counted.

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In Switzerland’s population statistics

218 people named Ragusa live in Switzerland.

They live in 16 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Ticino.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Ticino 40
Zurich 30
Aargau 24
Lucerne 18
Bern 18
Basel-Landschaft 18
Schaffhausen 12
Neuchâtel 11

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 109 people named Ragusa.

Most of them — 78 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 11 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 12
Paris 5
Var 3
Alpes-Maritimes 3
Moselle 2
Meuse 1
Rhône 1
Meurthe-et-Moselle 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 56 people named Ragusa 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 36
Walloon Brabant 8
Liège 7
Limburg 5

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 Ragusa is.
A volume says what happened to it.

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