The Tasso surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 501 people carried this name — #43,151 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 588,200 people counted. That is up 9% from 458 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Tasso surname
A surname from Italian.
Borrowed from Italian Tasso.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Tasso» (Spanish), 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 507 people named Tasso 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 mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 156 people named Tasso.
20 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 18 départements, most often Corsica.
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 Switzerland’s population statistics
24 people named Tasso live in Switzerland.
They live in 3 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
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/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
28 people named Tasso is counted in Finland.
Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Tasso,
with a public archive behind them.
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Bernardo Tasso 1493–1569 · writer -
Torquato Tasso 1544–1595 · writer -
Paolo Tasso d. 1607 · Catholic priest
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Giovanni Battista Tasso d. 1616
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Agostino Tasso 1451–1510
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Domenico Tasso 1467–1538
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Tasso.
- Tasse 196 · U.S. census
- Tasset 169 · U.S. census
- Tassi 411 · U.S. census
- Tassie 274 · U.S. census
- Tassin 1,593 · U.S. census
- Tassinari 700 · U.S. census
- Tassone 1,924 · U.S. census
- Tassy 395 · U.S. census
- Taste 159 · U.S. census
- Tastet 194 · U.S. census
- Tata 1,140 · U.S. census
- Tatar 1,062 · U.S. census
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