Schlesinger

3,714 people in the United States were counted with the surname Schlesinger in the 2020 census, making it the 8,512th most common in the country. That is about one person in 80,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,714
Rank: 8,512th
How common: 1 in 80,500
Per 100,000: 1.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Notable people called Schlesinger

John Schlesinger (1926–2003)English film and stage director
James R. Schlesinger (1929–2014)United States Secretary of Defense; United States Secretary of Energy; economist, academic and educator
Arthur M. Schlesinger (1917–2007)American historian, social critic, and public intellectual
Frank Schlesinger (1871–1943)United States astronomer
Adam Schlesinger (1967–2020)American musician
Leon Schlesinger (1884–1949)American film producer
Ludwig Schlesinger (1864–1933)German mathematician
Alice Schlesinger (born 1988)Israeli-British judoka

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

Surnames like Schlesinger

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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.