# Schofield (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/schofield/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 12,790 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,822 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 24,140 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.5% (12,356 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Schofield in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 88% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 6.7% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.7% |
| Two or more races | 1.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Schofield in the United Kingdom and the United States.

## People named Schofield

- David Schofield, British actor
- Admiral Schofield, American basketball player (born 1997)
- Phillip Schofield, British broadcaster and television personality
- Andrew N. Schofield, British engineer (1930–2025)
- Kendall Coyne, American ice hockey player

## Similar surnames

Sheffield, Scofield, Spaulding, Spalding, Shifflett, Seabolt, Shiflett, Sublett, Seefeldt, Saffold, Shiflet, Seibold.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.