The Schuette surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,059 people carried this name — #8,164 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 72,500 people counted. That is up 12% from 3,629 in 2000.

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In print

Schuette in American newspapers,
1917–1923.

Newspaper page from Evening Capital carrying the name Schuette
Evening Capital 1922-08-14
Newspaper page from Evening Journal carrying the name Schuette
Evening Journal 1923-02-02
Newspaper page from Tägliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt carrying the name Schuette
Tägliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt 1917-11-30

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Schuette in Australian newspapers,
1870s–1950s.

344 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Schuette. The most, 159, date from the 1940s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in New South Wales, at 2.7 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 339
South Australia 2
Queensland 1
Western Australia 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Schuette.

Who carried it

People named Schuette,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Curt Nicolaus Schuette 1895–1975
  • Paul Schuette 1906–1960 · American football player
  • Carl Schuette 1922–1975 · American football player
  • Donald Richard Schuette 1930–2021 · actuary

Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Schuette,
in the records of 3 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States866 records

866 records of the Schuette name in the United States
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 635
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 99
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 45
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 44
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 36
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 6
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Leo E. Schuette

    Born 1925 in Indiana. Enlisted 1943 at Louisville, Kentucky; sales clerk from Dearborn County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1978, buried at St Johns Lutheran, Dillsboro, Indiana.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Frida Schuette

    Arrived at Baltimore in 1881 aboard the Leipzig from Bremen, aged 1; farmer. From Prussia, Germany; bound for Kansas.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
  3. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record David Francis Schuette

    Born 1948; from Green Bay, Wisconsin. U.S. Navy, storekeeper; died in an accident 1970 in Quang Nam, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)

Showing 3 of 866 records for Schuette in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain).

Australia4 records

4 records of the Schuette name in Australia
  • NSW convict, estate and railway indexes 1
  • Queensland State Archives indexes 1
  • Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923 1
  • Victoria wills and probate, deaths to 2001 1
  1. A petition to the probate court of St. Louis, 1848
    Example: probate petition, 1848
    Probate record Rudolf W. L. Schuette

    Doctor of New South Wales; died 1953.

    Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Death record Bernhard Rudolph Schuette

    Died 1886.

    Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY)
  3. A petition to the probate court of St. Louis, 1848
    Example: probate petition, 1848
    Probate record Bernhard Rudolph Schuette

    Will registered in Queensland in 1857.

    Queensland State Archives (CC BY 4.0)

Showing 3 of 4 records for Schuette in Australia.

Counts: Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY) · Queensland State Archives (CC BY 4.0) · Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Petition to the probate court, St. Louis, 1848, Missouri Historical Society (public domain); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

Netherlands3 records

3 records of the Schuette name in the Netherlands
  • Dutch civil registers (births, marriages, deaths) 2
  • Dutch church registers before 1811 1
  1. A marriage entry in the civil register of Tilburg, 1911
    Example: marriage register, 1911
    Marriage record Willemina Chornelia Schuette

    Married in 1845 in Amsterdam; cleaning woman.

    Open Archives, Noord-Hollands Archief (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A page of the burial register of Newtown, Wales, 1858
    Example: burial register, 1858
    Burial record IJanneken Schuette

    Buried in 1690 in Bergen op Zoom.

    Open Archives, West Brabants Archief (CC BY 4.0)

Showing 2 of 3 records for Schuette in the Netherlands.

Counts: Open Archives (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain); Burial register of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 1858, National Library of Wales (CC0).

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