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    The surname Schultheiss

    A German occupational surname, carried by 532 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S432

    Schultheiss: #40,976 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Schultheiss #40,976, 532 people Schultheiss: #40,976 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Schultheiss #40,976, 532 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Schultheiss is more common than 74.7% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Schultheiß (“mayor”), an occupational surname. Compare the variant Schultheis.

    Schultheiss is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    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 532 people named Schultheiss in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 580,349 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 526.

    #40,976
    rank among US surnames
    532
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.1%
    change since 2000 (was #39,378)

    Who is named Schultheiss

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

    94% of people named Schultheiss identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.3%
    • Two or more races 1.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Schultheiss

    Schultheiss has the Soundex code S432, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S432.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Schultheiss come from?
    Borrowed from German Schultheiß (“mayor”), an occupational surname. Compare the variant Schultheis.
    How common is the surname Schultheiss?
    532 people in the United States had the surname Schultheiss in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 580,349 Americans. It ranked 40,976th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Schultheiss?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Schultheiss identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Schultheiss?
    Schultheiss is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Schultheiss getting more or less common?
    More common. 526 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 532 in 2010, up 1.1%.