Zuccaro surname: meaning, census count and records | FamilyCrests

The Zuccaro surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,006 people carried this name — #24,762 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 294,100 people counted. That is up 7% from 936 in 2000.

Share

What the name means

The meaning of the Zuccaro surname

From the Sicilian surname Zuccaru, a surname derived from zùccaru (“sugar”).

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Zuccaro» (English), 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 253 people named Zuccaro 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 map

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 208
City of Buenos Aires 31
Salta 14

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 50 people named Zuccaro.

Most of them — 35 — 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 35
Bouches-du-Rhône 2
Vosges 2
Meurthe-et-Moselle 2
Moselle 2
Seine-Saint-Denis 1
Vaucluse 1
Tarn-et-Garonne 1
Paris 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

22 people named Zuccaro live in Switzerland.

They live in 3 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

Ticino 11
Aargau 8
Geneva 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.

Who carried it

People named Zuccaro,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Ignazio Zuccaro
    Ignazio Zuccaro 1839–1913 · Catholic priest
  • Guido Zuccaro
    Guido Zuccaro 1876–1944 · painter
  • Rachela Baccellieri 1842–1915
  • Edward Zuccaro 1943–2025 · politician
  • Maureen Zuccaro 1975– · handball player

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0).

When the index is not enough

This page says where Zuccaro 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.

Scroll to Top