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    The surname Schluter

    A surname, carried by 1,505 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S436

    Schluter: #18,401 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Schluter #18,401, 1,505 people Schluter: #18,401 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Schluter #18,401, 1,505 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Schluter 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 1,505 people named Schluter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 205,147 Americans. That is up 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,494.

    #18,401
    rank among US surnames
    1,505
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.7%
    change since 2000 (was #17,408)

    Who is named Schluter

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

    94% of people named Schluter identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%
    • Two or more races 1.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Schluter

    Schluter has the Soundex code S436, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S436.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Schluter?
    1,505 people in the United States had the surname Schluter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 205,147 Americans. It ranked 18,401st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Schluter?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Schluter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Schluter getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,494 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,505 in 2010, up 0.7%.