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The Zizzo surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 888 people carried this name — #27,228 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 333,300 people counted. That is up 4% from 854 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Zizzo surname

A surname from Sicilian.

From Sicilian zizzu (“young person of ostentatious elegance; unmarried”), used as a nickname.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Zizzo» (Italian), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 62 people named Zizzo.

Most of them — 46 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 7 départements, most often Alpes-Maritimes.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they were born

Born outside France 46
Alpes-Maritimes 5
Bouches-du-Rhône 3
Gard 3
Hautes-Pyrénées 2
Saône-et-Loire 1
Var 1
Seine-Saint-Denis 1

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

In Switzerland’s population statistics

34 people named Zizzo live in Switzerland.

They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Solothurn.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Solothurn 18
Aargau 9
Valais 4
Basel-Stadt 3

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.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Zizzo 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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