Scholz

At the 2020 census, 4,993 Americans bore the surname Scholz — 6,533rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 59,900.

By the numbers

People: 4,993
Rank: 6,533rd
How common: 1 in 59,900
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Origin German

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Scholz

Olaf Scholz (born 1958)German politician (SPD), ninth Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (2021–2025), Member of the Bundestag
Jackson Scholz (1897–1986)athletics competitor
Alexander Scholz (born 1992)Danish footballer
Tom Scholz (born 1947)American rock musician
Lilly Scholz (1903–1994)figure skater
Eva Ingeborg Scholz (1928–2022)German actress
Rupert Scholz (born 1937)German politician
Robert Scholz (1886–1927)German actor

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

Surnames like Scholz

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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.