How common is the surname Schumaker?

3,545 people in the United States had the surname Schumaker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 87,093 Americans. It ranked 9,199th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Schumaker?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Schumaker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Schumaker getting more or less common?

More common. 3,501 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,545 in 2010, up 1.3%.

The surname Schumaker

A surname, carried by 3,545 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). Schumaker is more common than 94.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,545 people named Schumaker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 87,093 Americans. That is up 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,501.

#9,199

rank among US surnames

3,545

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+1.3%

change since 2000 (was #8,645)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,190	Fetzer	3,550	86,971
#9,192	Jimerson	3,548	87,020
#9,195	Samano	3,547	87,044
#9,199	Schumaker	3,545	87,093
#9,203	Wagers	3,544	87,118
#9,208	Demaio	3,542	87,167

Who is named Schumaker

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

94% of people named Schumaker identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
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 Schumaker

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

Questions

How common is the surname Schumaker?: 3,545 people in the United States had the surname Schumaker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 87,093 Americans. It ranked 9,199th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Schumaker?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Schumaker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Schumaker getting more or less common?: More common. 3,501 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,545 in 2010, up 1.3%.