Scheel

3,228 people in the United States were counted with the surname Scheel in the 2020 census, making it the 9,618th most common in the country. That is about one person in 92,600.

By the numbers

People: 3,228
Rank: 9,618th
How common: 1 in 92,600
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

North German and Dutch surname, from the adjective scheel (“squinting”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Scheel

Walter Scheel (1919–2016)President of West Germany
Mildred Scheel (1932–1985)German physician
Gustav Adolf Scheel (1907–1979)German general

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

Surnames like Scheel

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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.