The SHARP surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	76,868	371	0.028	285
United States (1880 census)	24,208	212	0.048	484
Change since 1880	+52660	-159	-0.02	-199
Other Countries
Australia	5,595	249	0.034	342
United Kingdom	26,145	199	0.057	569

Top States for SHARP by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	6,498	376	0.031	312
California	5,926	521	0.017	175
Tennessee	4,668	150	0.082	820
Ohio	4,273	269	0.038	376
Florida	3,578	528	0.022	224
Top States for SHARP by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	4,668	150	0.082	820
Arkansas	2,021	147	0.076	756
Oklahoma	2,257	176	0.065	654
Kentucky	2,248	240	0.056	556
Missouri	2,887	196	0.052	516

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called SHARP live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SHARP represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SHARP in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SHARP by picking someone at random in Tennessee than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SHARP

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SHARP surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the SHARP surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SHARP in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	730	0.95
Asian/Pacific	346	0.45
White (Caucasian)	65,430	85.12
Black/African American	8,071	10.5
Mixed Race	1,076	1.4
White (Hispanic)	1,215	1.58

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SHARP surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to SHARP

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHARP.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.