Explore the Family Name Szymczyk

The meaning of Szymczyk

Polish: derivative of Szymek, a pet form of the personal name Szymon, Polish form of Simon. Some characteristic forenames: Polish Jerzy, Danuta, Halina, Irena, Jozef, Kazimierz, Krystyna, Krzysztof, Wieslaw, Zygmunt.

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

The surname Szymczyk, as per the Decennial U.S. Census data, has seen a slight decrease in popularity between 2000 and 2010. In 2000, it ranked 50,903 in terms of overall popularity, but this ranking dropped to 53,802 in 2010, showing a change of -5.7%. The number of occurrences of this surname also fell marginally from 385 in 2000 to 384 in 2010, a change of -0.26%. As a result, the proportion of people with the Szymczyk surname per 100k also decreased by 7.14%.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#50,903	#53,802	-5.7%
Count	385	384	-0.26%
Proportion per 100k	0.14	0.13	-7.14%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Szymczyk

Looking at the ethnic identity associated with the surname Szymczyk, the Decennial U.S. Census data indicates that the vast majority of individuals with this surname identified as White in both 2000 and 2010. Specifically, 95.84% identified as White in 2000, which increased slightly to 97.14% in 2010. The percentage of those identifying as Hispanic saw a minor decrease from 3.12% in 2000 to 2.86% in 2010. There were no records of individuals with this surname identifying as either Asian/Pacific Islander, Black, American Indian and Alaskan Native, or having two or more races for both years. This information is based on available data and any suppressed data has not been included in these percentages.

	2000	2010	Change
White	95.84%	97.14%	1.36%
Hispanic	3.12%	2.86%	-8.33%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0%	0%
Two or More Races	0%	0%	0%
Black	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0%	0%	0%