How common is the surname Schaper?

2,498 people in the United States had the surname Schaper in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 123,597 Americans. It ranked 12,435th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Schaper?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Schaper identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Schaper getting more or less common?

More common. 2,428 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,498 in 2010, up 2.9%.

The surname Schaper

A surname, carried by 2,498 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S160

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Schaper is more common than 92.3% of them.

Origin

North German surname, spelling variant of Schaefer.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,498 people named Schaper in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 123,597 Americans. That is up 2.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,428.

#12,435

rank among US surnames

2,498

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+2.9%

change since 2000 (was #11,818)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,426	Fellers	2,501	123,449
#12,429	Nolin	2,500	123,498
#12,432	Soza	2,499	123,548
#12,435	Wittenberg	2,498	123,597
#12,440	Tobler	2,497	123,647
#12,444	Cournoyer	2,496	123,696

Who is named Schaper

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

93% of people named Schaper identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
Two or more races 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Schaper

Schaper has the Soundex code S160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S160.

Questions

Where does the surname Schaper come from?: North German surname, spelling variant of Schaefer.
How common is the surname Schaper?: 2,498 people in the United States had the surname Schaper in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 123,597 Americans. It ranked 12,435th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Schaper?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Schaper identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Schaper getting more or less common?: More common. 2,428 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,498 in 2010, up 2.9%.