How common is the surname Sheetz?

2,795 people in the United States had the surname Sheetz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 110,464 Americans. It ranked 11,299th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Sheetz?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Sheetz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Sheetz getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,807 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,795 in 2010, down 0.4%.

The surname Sheetz

A surname, carried by 2,795 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S320

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sheetz is more common than 93% of them.

Origin

From the German surname, Americanized from Schütz, Schuetz.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,795 people named Sheetz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 110,464 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,807.

#11,299

rank among US surnames

2,795

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

-0.4%

change since 2000 (was #10,499)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,290	Auld	2,798	110,345
#11,293	Branco	2,797	110,385
#11,296	Bartolo	2,796	110,424
#11,299	Kovac	2,795	110,464
#11,302	Rabago	2,794	110,503
#11,308	Gadd	2,793	110,543

Who is named Sheetz

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

96% of people named Sheetz identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

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 Sheetz

Sheetz has the Soundex code S320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S320.

Questions

Where does the surname Sheetz come from?: From the German surname, Americanized from Schütz, Schuetz.
How common is the surname Sheetz?: 2,795 people in the United States had the surname Sheetz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 110,464 Americans. It ranked 11,299th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sheetz?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Sheetz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Sheetz getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,807 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,795 in 2010, down 0.4%.