How common is the surname Schoch?

3,141 people in the United States had the surname Schoch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 98,295 Americans. It ranked 10,260th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Schoch?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Schoch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Schoch?

Robert M. Schoch, American geologist.

Where is the surname Schoch most common?

Wikidata records people named Schoch in the United States.

Is the surname Schoch getting more or less common?

More common. 2,802 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,141 in 2010, up 12%.

The surname Schoch

A surname, carried by 3,141 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Schoch is more common than 93.7% of them.

Origin

* As a south German surname, from Schock (“heap, haystack”). Compare Schober, Schock. * As a Germanized Slavic surname, from Lower Sorbian Čoch, also found as Zoch, from Polish czochrać (“to scratch, tousle”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,141 people named Schoch in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 98,295 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,802.

#10,260

rank among US surnames

3,141

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+12.1%

change since 2000 (was #10,515)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,255	Fitzhugh	3,144	98,202
#10,257	Moffat	3,143	98,233
#10,258	Villagrana	3,142	98,264
#10,260	Schoch	3,141	98,295
#10,265	Milford	3,140	98,327
#10,268	Orman	3,139	98,358

Who is named Schoch

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

95% of people named Schoch identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Schochs

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Robert M. Schoch
American geologist, born 1949

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Schoch

Schoch has the Soundex code S200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S200.

Questions

Where does the surname Schoch come from?: * As a south German surname, from Schock (“heap, haystack”). Compare Schober, Schock. * As a Germanized Slavic surname, from Lower Sorbian Čoch, also found as Zoch, from Polish czochrać (“to scratch, tousle”).
How common is the surname Schoch?: 3,141 people in the United States had the surname Schoch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 98,295 Americans. It ranked 10,260th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Schoch?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Schoch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Schoch?: Robert M. Schoch, American geologist.
Where is the surname Schoch most common?: Wikidata records people named Schoch in the United States.
Is the surname Schoch getting more or less common?: More common. 2,802 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,141 in 2010, up 12%.