How common is the surname Schuetz?

3,288 people in the United States had the surname Schuetz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 93,901 Americans. It ranked 9,844th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Schuetz?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Schuetz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Schuetz getting more or less common?

More common. 3,264 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,288 in 2010, up 0.7%.

The surname Schuetz

A surname, carried by 3,288 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S320

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Schuetz is more common than 93.9% of them.

Origin

Jewish and German surname for a watchman or rifler, from the verb schützen (“to protect”). Compare Schutz, Scheets, Scheetz, Sheats, Sheetz.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,288 people named Schuetz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 93,901 Americans. That is up 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,264.

#9,844

rank among US surnames

3,288

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+0.7%

change since 2000 (was #9,189)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,836	Depasquale	3,290	93,844
#9,839	Riccardi	3,289	93,872
#9,844	Schuetz	3,288	93,901
#9,845	Buzzard	3,287	93,929
#9,846	Mosquera	3,286	93,958
#9,848	Cavalier	3,285	93,986
#9,850	Bittle	3,284	94,015

Who is named Schuetz

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

96% of people named Schuetz identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Schuetz

Schuetz has the Soundex code S320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S320.

Questions

Where does the surname Schuetz come from?: Jewish and German surname for a watchman or rifler, from the verb schützen (“to protect”). Compare Schutz, Scheets, Scheetz, Sheats, Sheetz.
How common is the surname Schuetz?: 3,288 people in the United States had the surname Schuetz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 93,901 Americans. It ranked 9,844th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Schuetz?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Schuetz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Schuetz getting more or less common?: More common. 3,264 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,288 in 2010, up 0.7%.