How common is the surname Schimpf?

1,507 people in the United States had the surname Schimpf in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 204,874 Americans. It ranked 18,378th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Schimpf?

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

Is the surname Schimpf getting more or less common?

More common. 1,429 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,507 in 2010, up 5.5%.

The surname Schimpf

A surname, carried by 1,507 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S510

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Schimpf is more common than 88.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,507 people named Schimpf in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 204,874 Americans. That is up 5.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,429.

#18,378

rank among US surnames

1,507

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+5.5%

change since 2000 (was #18,008)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,378	Prohaska	1,507	204,874
#18,385	Roder	1,506	205,010

Who is named Schimpf

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

95% of people named Schimpf identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Two or more races 0.7%

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

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Schimpf

Shimp

Schimpf has the Soundex code S510, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S510.

Questions

How common is the surname Schimpf?: 1,507 people in the United States had the surname Schimpf in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 204,874 Americans. It ranked 18,378th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Schimpf?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Schimpf identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Schimpf getting more or less common?: More common. 1,429 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,507 in 2010, up 5.5%.