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The surname Schmidtke

A surname, carried by 1,303 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S532

Schmidtke: #20,394 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Schmidtke #20,394, 1,303 people Schmidtke: #20,394 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Schmidtke #20,394, 1,303 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Schmidtke is more common than 87.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,303 people named Schmidtke in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 236,950 Americans. That is up 5.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,238.

#20,394
rank among US surnames
1,303
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+5.3%
change since 2000 (was #20,041)

Who is named Schmidtke

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

96% of people named Schmidtke identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.1% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 96%
  • Two or more races 1.1%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Schmidtke

Schmidtke has the Soundex code S532, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S532.

Questions

How common is the surname Schmidtke?
1,303 people in the United States had the surname Schmidtke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 236,950 Americans. It ranked 20,394th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Schmidtke?
In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Schmidtke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.1% as two or more races.
Is the surname Schmidtke getting more or less common?
More common. 1,238 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,303 in 2010, up 5.3%.