The surname Schwendeman
A German place surname, carried by 744 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S535
Origin
German origin
Variant of German Schwendemann, a topographic or habitational surname for someone who lived in a forest clearing, or in a place called Schwende.
Schwendeman is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
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 744 people named Schwendeman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 414,981 Americans. That is up 7.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 692.
Who is named Schwendeman
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
98% of people named Schwendeman identified as white (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 98%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
- Two or more races 0.7%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Schwendeman
Schwendeman has the Soundex code S535, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S535.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Schwendeman come from?
- Variant of German Schwendemann, a topographic or habitational surname for someone who lived in a forest clearing, or in a place called Schwende.
- How common is the surname Schwendeman?
- 744 people in the United States had the surname Schwendeman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 414,981 Americans. It ranked 31,184th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Schwendeman?
- In the 2010 Census, 98% of people named Schwendeman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Schwendeman?
- Schwendeman is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Schwendeman getting more or less common?
- More common. 692 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 744 in 2010, up 7.5%.