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The SHEAD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,467 17639 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 146 24161 0 3
Change since 1880 +1321 +6522 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 218 6954 0.001 13
United Kingdom 721 6759 0.002 16
Top States for SHEAD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 316 7265 0.002 15
Georgia 200 4846 0.002 24
South Carolina 134 4390 0.003 33
Missouri 79 10540 0.001 14
Tennessee 76 8145 0.001 13
Top States for SHEAD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 134 4390 0.003 33
Georgia 200 4846 0.002 24
Mississippi 46 6256 0.002 16
Texas 316 7265 0.002 15
Missouri 79 10540 0.001 14

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of SHEAD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SHEAD 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 SHEAD 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 SHEAD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 724 49.35
Black/African American 682 46.49
Mixed Race 34 2.32
White (Hispanic) 12 0.82
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of SHEAD in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of SHEAD.

Similar names to SHEAD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHEAD.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for SHEAD

The following words are slight variants of SHEAD that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.