How common is the surname Scheetz?

3,034 people in the United States had the surname Scheetz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 101,762 Americans. It ranked 10,563rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Scheetz?

In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Scheetz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Scheetz getting more or less common?

More common. 2,847 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,034 in 2010, up 6.6%.

The surname Scheetz

A surname, carried by 3,034 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S320

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Scheetz is more common than 93.5% of them.

Origin

From the German surname, Americanized from Schütz, Schuetz.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,034 people named Scheetz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 101,762 Americans. That is up 6.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,847.

#10,563

rank among US surnames

3,034

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+6.6%

change since 2000 (was #10,369)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,555	Magness	3,036	101,695
#10,560	Biggerstaff	3,035	101,728
#10,563	Nadler	3,034	101,762
#10,565	Mullikin	3,033	101,795
#10,572	Larocque	3,032	101,829

Who is named Scheetz

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

97% of people named Scheetz identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Scheetz

Scheetz has the Soundex code S320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S320.

Questions

Where does the surname Scheetz come from?: From the German surname, Americanized from Schütz, Schuetz.
How common is the surname Scheetz?: 3,034 people in the United States had the surname Scheetz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 101,762 Americans. It ranked 10,563rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Scheetz?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Scheetz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Scheetz getting more or less common?: More common. 2,847 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,034 in 2010, up 6.6%.