How common is the surname Schwindt?

1,698 people in the United States had the surname Schwindt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 181,829 Americans. It ranked 16,809th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Schwindt?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Schwindt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Schwindt getting more or less common?

More common. 1,679 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,698 in 2010, up 1.1%.

The surname Schwindt

A German surname, carried by 1,698 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S530

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Schwindt is more common than 89.6% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Schwindt.

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 1,698 people named Schwindt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 181,829 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,679.

#16,809

rank among US surnames

1,698

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+1.1%

change since 2000 (was #15,903)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,802	Legler	1,699	181,722
#16,809	Porcaro	1,698	181,829

Who is named Schwindt

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

93% of people named Schwindt identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.8%
Two or more races 1.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Schwindt

Schwindt has the Soundex code S530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S530.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Schwindt come from?: Borrowed from German Schwindt.
How common is the surname Schwindt?: 1,698 people in the United States had the surname Schwindt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 181,829 Americans. It ranked 16,809th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Schwindt?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Schwindt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Schwindt getting more or less common?: More common. 1,679 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,698 in 2010, up 1.1%.