How common is the surname Schumacher?

25,292 people in the United States had the surname Schumacher in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 12,207 Americans. It ranked 1,404th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Schumacher?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Schumacher identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Schumacher getting more or less common?

More common. 24,573 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 25,292 in 2010, up 2.9%.

The surname Schumacher

A surname, carried by 25,292 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S526

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Schumacher is more common than 99.1% of them.

Origin

From German Schumacher.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 25,292 people named Schumacher in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 12,207 Americans. That is up 2.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 24,573.

#1,404

rank among US surnames

25,292

people in 2010

8.6

per 100,000 Americans

+2.9%

change since 2000 (was #1,315)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,395	Gleason	25,416	12,148
#1,396	Vela	25,414	12,149
#1,397	Padgett	25,413	12,149
#1,398	Ackerman	25,401	12,155
#1,399	Heller	25,373	12,168
#1,400	Ziegler	25,351	12,179
#1,401	Vinson	25,341	12,184

Who is named Schumacher

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

96% of people named Schumacher identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Schumacher

Schumacher has the Soundex code S526, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S526.

Questions

Where does the surname Schumacher come from?: From German Schumacher.
How common is the surname Schumacher?: 25,292 people in the United States had the surname Schumacher in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 12,207 Americans. It ranked 1,404th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Schumacher?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Schumacher identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Schumacher getting more or less common?: More common. 24,573 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 25,292 in 2010, up 2.9%.