Schwarz

15,497 people in the United States were counted with the surname Schwarz in the 2020 census, making it the 2,292nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 19,300.

By the numbers

People: 15,497
Rank: 2,292nd
How common: 1 in 19,300
Per 100,000: 5.2

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Borrowed from German Schwarz.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Schwarz

Hermann Schwarz (1843–1921)German mathematician
Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824–1902)Baltic German painter
Stefan Schwarz (born 1969)Swedish association football player
Walter Andreas Schwarz (1913–1992)singer, author, Kabarettist, author of radio dramas and translator
Franz Xaver Schwarz (1875–1947)politician from Germany
Jessica Schwarz (born 1977)German actress
John Henry Schwarz (born 1941)American theoretical physicist
Marco Schwarz (born 1995)Austrian alpine skier

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

Surnames like Schwarz

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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.