How common is the surname Schecter?

1,051 people in the United States had the surname Schecter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 293,764 Americans. It ranked 24,001st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Schecter?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Schecter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Schecter getting more or less common?

More common. 966 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,051 in 2010, up 8.8%.

The surname Schecter

A surname, carried by 1,051 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S236

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Schecter is more common than 85.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,051 people named Schecter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 293,764 Americans. That is up 8.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 966.

#24,001

rank among US surnames

1,051

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+8.8%

change since 2000 (was #24,306)

Who is named Schecter

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

95% of people named Schecter identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 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 Schecter

Schecter has the Soundex code S236, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S236.

Questions

How common is the surname Schecter?: 1,051 people in the United States had the surname Schecter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 293,764 Americans. It ranked 24,001st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Schecter?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Schecter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Schecter getting more or less common?: More common. 966 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,051 in 2010, up 8.8%.