Schwab

At the 2020 census, 16,238 Americans bore the surname Schwab — 2,177th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 18,400.

By the numbers

People: 16,238
Rank: 2,177th
How common: 1 in 18,400
Per 100,000: 5.4

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Borrowed from German Schwab.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Schwab

Klaus Schwab (born 1938)German economist, founder of World Economic Forum
Gustav Schwab (1792–1850)German teacher, pastor, author and editor
Stefan Schwab (born 1990)Austrian association football player
Arthur Tell Schwab (1896–1945)Swiss racewalker
Fritz Schwab (1919–2006)athletics competitor
V. E. Schwab (born 1987)American writer
Susan Schwab (born 1955)15th United States Trade Representative
Charles M. Schwab (1862–1939)American steel magnate

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

Surnames like Schwab

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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.