Explore the Family Name Shultis

The meaning of Shultis

Americanized form of German Schultheis.

Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, © Oxford University Press, 2022.

How common is the last name Shultis in the United States?

Based on data from the Decennial U.S. Census, the popularity of the surname Shultis saw a notable increase between 2000 and 2010. In 2000, it was ranked as the 21,776th most common surname, but by 2010, it had improved its rank to 21,057. This represents an uptick of 3.3%. During the same period, the count of people with this surname increased by 12.03%, going from 1,114 to 1,248 individuals. The proportion of individuals with the Shultis surname per 100,000 people also showed a slight rise from 0.41 to 0.42, marking a 2.44% change.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#21,776	#21,057	3.3%
Count	1,114	1,248	12.03%
Proportion per 100k	0.41	0.42	2.44%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Shultis

Concurrently, the ethnic identity associated with the surname Shultis experienced shifts as well. According to the Decennial U.S. Census, the majority of individuals identifying as Shultis are of White ethnicity, standing at 97.49% in 2000, slightly decreasing to 96.23% in 2010. Those identifying as Hispanic remained relatively stable, increasing only slightly from 1.08% to 1.12%. There was no recorded Black ethnicity among this group during these years. However, there were new ethnic identities reported in 2010 that were not present in 2000, including Asian/Pacific Islander and American Indian and Alaskan Native, at 0.88% and 0.40% respectively. Furthermore, those identifying as two or more races nearly doubled, rising from 0.81% in 2000 to 1.36% in 2010.

	2000	2010	Change
White	97.49%	96.23%	-1.29%
Two or More Races	0.81%	1.36%	67.9%
Hispanic	1.08%	1.12%	3.7%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0.88%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0%	0.4%	0%
Black	0%	0%	0%