The SHAND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,661	16035	0.001	6
United States (1880 census)	167	21987	0	3
Change since 1880	+1494	+5952	+N/A	+3
Other Countries
Australia	461	3455	0.003	28
United Kingdom	2,561	2407	0.006	56

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.

Classification and Origin of SHAND

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	387	23.3
Mixed Race	54	3.25
White (Hispanic)	45	2.71
Asian/Pacific	21	1.26
Native American/Alaskan	6	0.36
White (Caucasian)	1,148	69.11

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

Meaning of SHAND in historical publications

SHAND. Said to be a corruption of De Champ or Deschamps. In Scotland it was ancientl)- written Schand, and latinized Schanda?us. It is of course of French origin, though of earlier importation than the Rev. of the Ed. of Nantes, 1G85, as asserted in Notes & Qu., 2ud Series No. lOG. Philibert de Shaunde was created Earl of Bath in 1185 ; but nothing is known of him except tliat he was a native of Brittany. Ext. Peerage. The name is common in the shires of Aberdeen and Banff. Inf. C. F. Shand, Esq.

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 SHAND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHAND.

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.