Gottschalk

At the 2020 census, 3,993 Americans bore the surname Gottschalk — 7,955th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 74,900.

By the numbers

People: 3,993
Rank: 7,955th
How common: 1 in 74,900
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

From German, Jewish, and Danish surname, equivalent to Gott (“god”) + Schalk (“servant”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gottschalk described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Gottschalk

Thomas Gottschalk (born 1950)German television host and entertainer
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829–1869)American musician and composer
Gottschalk (1043–1066)prince of the Obotrite confederacy
Joachim Gottschalk (1904–1941)German actor
Ferdinand Gottschalk (1858–1944)actor
Albert Gottschalk (1866–1906)Danish artist

People named Gottschalk with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Gottschalk

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.