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    The surname Scheid

    A surname, carried by 3,393 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S300

    Scheid: #9,581 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Scheid #9,581, 3,393 people Scheid: #9,581 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Scheid #9,581, 3,393 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Scheid is more common than 94.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,393 people named Scheid in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 90,995 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,328.

    #9,581
    rank among US surnames
    3,393
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2%
    change since 2000 (was #9,029)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,573Delacerda3,39590,941
    #9,578Enoch3,39490,968
    #9,581Scheid3,39390,995
    #9,583Woodrum3,39291,022
    #9,587Kegley3,39191,049
    #9,590Cendejas3,39091,075

    Who is named Scheid

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

    96% of people named Scheid identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Scheid

    Scheid has the Soundex code S300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S300.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Scheid?
    3,393 people in the United States had the surname Scheid in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 90,995 Americans. It ranked 9,581st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Scheid?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Scheid identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Scheid getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,328 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,393 in 2010, up 2.0%.