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The SCHWARTZ surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 84,699 330 0.031 314
United States (1880 census) 7,287 833 0.015 146
Change since 1880 +77412 +503 +0.016 +168
Other Countries
Australia 580 2801 0.004 35
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for SCHWARTZ by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 11,921 66 0.063 628
California 7,925 373 0.023 234
Florida 7,458 207 0.047 467
Pennsylvania 5,492 160 0.045 447
New Jersey 5,130 79 0.061 610
Top States for SCHWARTZ by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 11,921 66 0.063 628
New Jersey 5,130 79 0.061 610
Minnesota 2,949 91 0.060 599
Wisconsin 3,083 96 0.057 575
North Dakota 301 140 0.047 469

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.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called SCHWARTZ live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SCHWARTZ represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SCHWARTZ in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SCHWARTZ by picking someone at random in New York than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SCHWARTZ

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SCHWARTZ surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SCHWARTZ in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 847 1
Asian/Pacific 390 0.46
Black/African American 339 0.4
Native American/Alaskan 136 0.16
White (Caucasian) 81,963 96.77
White (Hispanic) 1,025 1.21

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

Meaning of SCHWARTZ in historical publications

SCHWARS. SCHWARTZ. From Germany. Germ., black.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to SCHWARTZ

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SCHWARTZ.

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 SCHWARTZ

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