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    The surname Scharff

    A surname, carried by 1,895 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S610

    Scharff: #15,456 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Scharff #15,456, 1,895 people Scharff: #15,456 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Scharff #15,456, 1,895 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Scharff is more common than 90.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,895 people named Scharff in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 162,926 Americans. That is up 9.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,727.

    #15,456
    rank among US surnames
    1,895
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.7%
    change since 2000 (was #15,551)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,449Ivester1,896162,840
    #15,456Cadwallader1,895162,926
    #15,464Belz1,894163,012

    Who is named Scharff

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

    91% of people named Scharff identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 2.5%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Scharff

    Scharff has the Soundex code S610, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S610.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Scharff?
    1,895 people in the United States had the surname Scharff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 162,926 Americans. It ranked 15,456th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Scharff?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Scharff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Scharff getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,727 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,895 in 2010, up 9.7%.