How common is the surname Schurr?

1,379 people in the United States had the surname Schurr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 223,891 Americans. It ranked 19,567th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Schurr?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Schurr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Schurr getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,525 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,379 in 2010, down 9.6%.

The surname Schurr

A surname, carried by 1,379 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Schurr is more common than 87.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,379 people named Schurr in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 223,891 Americans. That is down 9.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,525.

#19,567

rank among US surnames

1,379

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-9.6%

change since 2000 (was #17,153)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,559	Walder	1,380	223,729
#19,567	Kilbourn	1,379	223,891

Who is named Schurr

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

96% of people named Schurr identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Schurr

Schurr has the Soundex code S600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S600.

Questions

How common is the surname Schurr?: 1,379 people in the United States had the surname Schurr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 223,891 Americans. It ranked 19,567th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Schurr?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Schurr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Schurr getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,525 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,379 in 2010, down 9.6%.