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    The surname Schwarz

    A German surname, carried by 15,884 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S620

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Schwarz is more common than 98.6% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Schwarz. Doublet of swart.

    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 15,884 people named Schwarz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 19,438 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 15,713.

    #2,295
    rank among US surnames
    15,884
    people in 2010
    5.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.1%
    change since 2000 (was #2,119)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,286Coats15,94319,366
    #2,287Yoon15,93619,374
    #2,288Mast15,93219,379
    #2,289Espinal15,92419,389
    #2,290Ibrahim15,91519,400
    #2,291Dietrich15,90419,413
    #2,292Bruner15,89819,420

    Who is named Schwarz

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

    94% of people named Schwarz identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

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

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Schwarzs

    20 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz
      Baltic German painter (1824-1902)
    • Marco Schwarz
      Austrian alpine skier, born 1995
    • John Henry Schwarz
      American theoretical physicist, born 1941
    • Wolfgang Schwarz
      Austrian figure skater, born 1947
    • Eleonore Schwarz
      Austrian singer, born 1936
    • Sissy Schwarz
      Austrian figure skater, born 1936
    • Adolf Schwarz
      Austro-Hungarian chess player, 1836–1910
    • Marquard Schwarz
      American swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist (1887-1968)
    • Gerard Schwarz
      American conductor and trumpeter, born 1947
    • Rudolf Schwarz
      British conductor (1905–1994)
    • Viktoria Schwarz
      Austrian canoeist, born 1985
    • Hanns Schwarz
      Austrian film director (1888–1945)

    Notable Schwarzs come mostly from Austria (11), the United States (6) and the Russian Empire (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Schwarz

    Schwarz has the Soundex code S620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S620.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Schwarz come from?
    Borrowed from German Schwarz. Doublet of swart.
    How common is the surname Schwarz?
    15,884 people in the United States had the surname Schwarz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 19,438 Americans. It ranked 2,295th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Schwarz?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Schwarz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Who is the most famous person named Schwarz?
    Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz, Baltic German painter (1824-1902), followed by Marco Schwarz.
    Where is the surname Schwarz most common?
    Wikidata records people named Schwarz in Austria, the United States and the Russian Empire and 2 other countries.
    Is the surname Schwarz getting more or less common?
    More common. 15,713 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 15,884 in 2010, up 1.1%.