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    The surname Schnurr

    A German surname, carried by 1,072 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S560

    Schnurr: #23,647 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Schnurr #23,647, 1,072 people Schnurr: #23,647 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Schnurr #23,647, 1,072 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Schnurr is more common than 85.4% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Schnurr.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,072 people named Schnurr in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 288,009 Americans. That is up 4.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,025.

    #23,647
    rank among US surnames
    1,072
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.6%
    change since 2000 (was #23,221)

    Who is named Schnurr

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

    97% of people named Schnurr identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Hispanic 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 Schnurr

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

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Schnurr come from?
    Borrowed from German Schnurr.
    How common is the surname Schnurr?
    1,072 people in the United States had the surname Schnurr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 288,009 Americans. It ranked 23,647th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Schnurr?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Schnurr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Schnurr getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,025 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,072 in 2010, up 4.6%.