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The SHEW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,408 11903 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 448 10561 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +1960 -1342 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 61 21796 0 4
United Kingdom 153 19196 0 3
Top States for SHEW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 496 2354 0.006 62
California 205 12704 0.001 6
Pennsylvania 167 9347 0.001 14
Texas 154 11438 0.001 7
Illinois 148 9283 0.001 12
Top States for SHEW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 496 2354 0.006 62
Alabama 94 5166 0.002 21
Alaska 13 8211 0.002 21
Indiana 108 7095 0.002 18
Oregon 47 9558 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 SHEW live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SHEW represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SHEW in North Carolina than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SHEW by picking someone at random in North Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SHEW

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 SHEW 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 SHEW 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 SHEW in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 257 10.67
Mixed Race 35 1.45
Black/African American 31 1.29
White (Hispanic) 27 1.12
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.46
White (Caucasian) 2,047 85.01

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

Meaning of SHEW in historical publications

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

Similar names to SHEW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHEW.

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 SHEW

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