Rizzo (Italian pronunciation: ['rittso]) is a surname of Italian origin, denoting a person with curly hair[citation needed] or a variation of the surnames Ricci and Risso.
As of 2014, 55.1% of all known bearers of the surname Rizzo were residents of Italy (frequency 1:786), 18.2% of the United States (1:14,059), 7.9% of Brazil (1:18,357), 5.1% of Argentina (1:5,960), 3.3% of Ecuador (1:3,422), 2.4% of France (1:19,532), 1.1% of Belgium (1:7,505), 1.0% of Canada (1:27,097) and 0.01% of Corfu, Greece (1:10).
In Italy, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:786) in the following regions: In Ecuador, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:3,422) in the following provinces:[1] Notable people with this surname include: