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The SCHENCK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,016 5333 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 2,736 2217 0.005 55
Change since 1880 +3280 -3116 -0.003 -33
Other Countries
Australia 29 39705 0 2
United Kingdom 33 27231 0 1
Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Classification and Origin of SCHENCK

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the SCHENCK surname.

Ethnic distribution of SCHENCK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 451 7.5
White (Hispanic) 106 1.76
Mixed Race 102 1.7
Native American/Alaskan 36 0.6
Asian/Pacific 32 0.53
White (Caucasian) 5,289 87.92

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SCHENCK surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

SCHENCK is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of SCHENCK in historical publications

(origin: Ger.) From schenke, an inn or public house; a name of place.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to SCHENCK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SCHENCK.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for SCHENCK

The following words are slight variants of SCHENCK that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.