How common is the surname Scheper?

551 people in the United States had the surname Scheper in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 560,337 Americans. It ranked 39,837th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Scheper?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Scheper identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Scheper getting more or less common?

Less common. 581 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 551 in 2010, down 5.2%.

The surname Scheper

A Dutch occupational surname, carried by 551 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S160

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Scheper is more common than 75.4% of them.

Origin

Dutch origin

Borrowed from German Low German Scheper (“shepherd”) (compare English Shepherd) or from Dutch schipper (“captain (of a ship)”) (compare English Skipper).

Scheper is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 551 people named Scheper in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 560,337 Americans. That is down 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 581.

#39,837

rank among US surnames

551

people in 2010

0.2

per 100,000 Americans

-5.2%

change since 2000 (was #36,381)

Who is named Scheper

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

95% of people named Scheper identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Scheper

Scheper has the Soundex code S160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S160.

Other Dutch surnames

All 167 Dutch surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Scheper come from?: Borrowed from German Low German Scheper (“shepherd”) (compare English Shepherd) or from Dutch schipper (“captain (of a ship)”) (compare English Skipper).
How common is the surname Scheper?: 551 people in the United States had the surname Scheper in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 560,337 Americans. It ranked 39,837th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Scheper?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Scheper identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Scheper?: Scheper is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Scheper getting more or less common?: Less common. 581 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 551 in 2010, down 5.2%.