The Scotto surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 2,000 people carried this name — #13,855 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 135,100 people counted.
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In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 576 people named Scotto.
211 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 29 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
92 people named Scotto live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Ticino.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where 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 print
Scotto in American newspapers,
1861–1959.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 2,863 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Scotto,
with a public archive behind them.
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Girolamo Scotto 1505–1572 · composer -
Carlo Centurione Scotto 1862–1937 · engineer -
Vincent Scotto 1876–1952 · actor -
Carlo Centurione Scotto 1877–1958 · lawyer -
Giovanna Scotto 1895–1985 · stage actor
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 43 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Scotto.
- Scolari 349 · U.S. census
- Scolaro 772 · U.S. census
- Scopel 284 · U.S. census
- Scordo 392 · U.S. census
- Scott 420,091 · U.S. census
- Scotti 2,098 · U.S. census
- Scotton 706 · U.S. census
- Scozzaro 179 · U.S. census
- Scuderi 1,352 · U.S. census
- Seach 196 · U.S. census
- Seba 327 · U.S. census
- Sebag 108 · U.S. census
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