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    The surname Schoon

    A nickname surname, carried by 1,391 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S500

    Schoon: #19,425 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Schoon #19,425, 1,391 people Schoon: #19,425 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Schoon #19,425, 1,391 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Schoon is more common than 88% of them.

    Origin

    From the German and Dutch surname, from a nickname meaning beautiful, from Proto-West Germanic *skaunī.

    Schoon is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,391 people named Schoon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 221,959 Americans. That is up 7.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,295.

    #19,425
    rank among US surnames
    1,391
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.4%
    change since 2000 (was #19,355)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,416Jeanjacques1,392221,800
    #19,425Akram1,391221,959

    Who is named Schoon

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

    95% of people named Schoon identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 1.3% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Schoon

    Schoon has the Soundex code S500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S500.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Schoon come from?
    From the German and Dutch surname, from a nickname meaning beautiful, from Proto-West Germanic *skaunī.
    How common is the surname Schoon?
    1,391 people in the United States had the surname Schoon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 221,959 Americans. It ranked 19,425th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Schoon?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Schoon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    What type of surname is Schoon?
    Schoon is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Schoon getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,295 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,391 in 2010, up 7.4%.