# Schwarz (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/schwarz/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from German.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | German |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 15,884 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,295 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 19,438 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.1% (15,713 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from German Schwarz. Doublet of swart.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Schwarz in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 94% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.3% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.2% |
| Two or more races | 1.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Schwarz in Austria, the United States, the Russian Empire, Austria–Hungary and the United Kingdom.

## People named Schwarz

- Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz, Baltic German painter (1824-1902)
- Marco Schwarz, Austrian alpine skier
- John Henry Schwarz, American theoretical physicist
- Wolfgang Schwarz, Austrian figure skater
- Eleonore Schwarz, Austrian singer
- Sissy Schwarz, Austrian figure skater
- Adolf Schwarz, Austro-Hungarian chess player
- Marquard Schwarz, American swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist (1887-1968)
- Gerard Schwarz, American conductor and trumpeter
- Rudolf Schwarz, British conductor (1905–1994)
- Viktoria Schwarz, Austrian canoeist
- Hanns Schwarz, Austrian film director (1888–1945)

and 8 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Schrage, Schrag, Schrack, Suarez, Sears, Scruggs, Squires, Soares, Schrock, Searcy, Sowers, Sharkey.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.