How common is the surname Scheiner?

1,193 people in the United States had the surname Scheiner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 258,798 Americans. It ranked 21,790th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Scheiner?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Scheiner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Scheiner getting more or less common?

More common. 1,176 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,193 in 2010, up 1.4%.

The surname Scheiner

A surname, carried by 1,193 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S560

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Scheiner is more common than 86.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,193 people named Scheiner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 258,798 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,176.

#21,790

rank among US surnames

1,193

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+1.4%

change since 2000 (was #20,871)

Who is named Scheiner

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

95% of people named Scheiner identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%

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 Scheiner

Scheiner has the Soundex code S560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S560.

Questions

How common is the surname Scheiner?: 1,193 people in the United States had the surname Scheiner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 258,798 Americans. It ranked 21,790th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Scheiner?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Scheiner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Scheiner getting more or less common?: More common. 1,176 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,193 in 2010, up 1.4%.