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    The surname Schanz

    A German surname, carried by 1,117 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S520

    Schanz: #22,906 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Schanz #22,906, 1,117 people Schanz: #22,906 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Schanz #22,906, 1,117 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Schanz is more common than 85.9% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    A surname from German.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,117 people named Schanz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 276,406 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,121.

    #22,906
    rank among US surnames
    1,117
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.4%
    change since 2000 (was #21,666)

    Who is named Schanz

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    95% of people named Schanz identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as two or more races and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Schanz

    Schanz has the Soundex code S520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S520.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Schanz come from?
    Schanz is German in origin.
    How common is the surname Schanz?
    1,117 people in the United States had the surname Schanz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 276,406 Americans. It ranked 22,906th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Schanz?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Schanz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Schanz getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,121 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,117 in 2010, down 0.4%.