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    The surname Schau

    A place surname, carried by 827 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S000

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Schau is more common than 82.3% of them.

    Origin

    Two main origins: * Borrowed from North German Schau, a variant of Schuh. * Borrowed from Norwegian Schau, a variant of Skau, a topographic surname from skau (“forest”).

    Schau is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 827 people named Schau in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 373,332 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 800.

    #28,777
    rank among US surnames
    827
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.4%
    change since 2000 (was #28,166)

    Who is named Schau

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

    96% of people named Schau identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.3%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    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

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    Surnames that sound like Schau

    Schau has the Soundex code S000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S000.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Schau come from?
    Two main origins: * Borrowed from North German Schau, a variant of Schuh. * Borrowed from Norwegian Schau, a variant of Skau, a topographic surname from skau (“forest”).
    How common is the surname Schau?
    827 people in the United States had the surname Schau in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 373,332 Americans. It ranked 28,777th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Schau?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Schau identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Schau?
    Schau is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Schau getting more or less common?
    More common. 800 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 827 in 2010, up 3.4%.