The Scheid surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,393 people carried this name — #9,581 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 87,000 people counted. That is up 2% from 3,328 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 568 people named Scheid.
18 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 52 départements, most often Moselle.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
23 people named Scheid live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Aargau.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Scheid in American newspapers,
1899–1928.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 13,136 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Scheid,
with a public archive behind them.
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Nikolaus Scheid 1852–1933 · pedagogue -
Lucienne Scheid-Levillion 1911–1991 · lawyer -
Johann Friedrich Scheid 1674–1740 · jurist
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Henrique Scheid 1829–1896
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Abraham Scheid 1870–1942
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Richard Scheid 1876–1962 · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Scheid.
- Scheffel 1,028 · U.S. census
- Scheffer 1,763 · U.S. census
- Scheffler 4,052 · U.S. census
- Schehr 428 · U.S. census
- Scheibel 628 · U.S. census
- Scheiber 968 · U.S. census
- Scheidecker 376 · U.S. census
- Scheidegger 734 · U.S. census
- Scheider 838 · U.S. census
- Scheidler 997 · U.S. census
- Scheidt 2,528 · U.S. census
- Scheil 153 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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