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The SHEAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,318 9059 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 1,227 4596 0.002 25
Change since 1880 +2091 -4463 -0.001 -13
Other Countries
Australia 13 73950 0 1
United Kingdom 195 16767 0 4
Top States for SHEAR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 465 3954 0.002 25
Florida 316 5928 0.002 20
California 249 9962 0.001 7
Michigan 215 5340 0.002 22
Illinois 214 5763 0.002 17
Top States for SHEAR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 23 5966 0.003 25
New York 465 3954 0.002 25
North Dakota 15 7162 0.002 23
Michigan 215 5340 0.002 22
Wisconsin 112 7149 0.002 21

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

Classification and Origin of SHEAR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 49 1.48
Black/African American 47 1.42
Mixed Race 32 0.96
Asian/Pacific 29 0.87
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.57
White (Caucasian) 3,142 94.7

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

Meaning of SHEAR in historical publications

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

Similar names to SHEAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHEAR.

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 SHEAR

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