Schenk

At the 2020 census, 7,365 Americans bore the surname Schenk — 4,672nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 40,600.

By the numbers

People: 7,365
Rank: 4,672nd
How common: 1 in 40,600
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Dutch and German Schenk.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Schenk

Ard Schenk (born 1944)Dutch Olympic speed skater
Christian Schenk (born 1965)East German athlete
Franziska Schenk (born 1974)German speed skater
Karl Schenk (1823–1895)longest serving member of the Swiss Federal Council
Peter Schenk the Elder (1660–1718)German engraver and cartographer
Otto Schenk (1930–2025)Austrian actor and director
Johann Baptist Schenk (1753–1836)Austrian composer
August Schenk (1815–1891)German botanist and palaeontologist

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

Surnames like Schenk

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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.