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The SHEIL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 556 37640 0 2
United States (1880 census) 133 25825 0 3
Change since 1880 +423 -11815 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 234 6536 0.001 14
United Kingdom 354 11396 0.001 8
Top States for SHEIL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 85 17767 0.000 4
Florida 48 27048 0.000 3
Ohio 38 26172 0.000 3
California 35 49290 0.000 1
Missouri 31 16707 0.001 6
Top States for SHEIL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 8 9238 0.001 13
Iowa 27 13346 0.001 9
Nebraska 13 15853 0.001 8
Rhode Island 6 19327 0.001 6
Missouri 31 16707 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of SHEIL

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 SHEIL 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 SHEIL 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 SHEIL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 527 94.78
Mixed Race 13 2.34
White (Hispanic) 13 2.34
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of SHEIL in historical publications

SHEIL. See Sheill.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to SHEIL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHEIL.

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 SHEIL

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