The SHANKS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,436	2881	0.004	42
United States (1880 census)	2,870	2126	0.006	57
Change since 1880	+8566	-755	-0.002	-15
Other Countries
Australia	744	2188	0.005	46
United Kingdom	3,395	1837	0.007	74

Top States for SHANKS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,079	2236	0.005	52
Missouri	752	915	0.013	134
California	739	4066	0.002	22
Ohio	657	2142	0.006	58
Illinois	654	1992	0.005	53
Top States for SHANKS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Missouri	752	915	0.013	134
Kentucky	530	1122	0.013	131
Tennessee	625	1423	0.011	110
Montana	79	1500	0.009	88
Mississippi	245	1676	0.009	86

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.

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

Classification and Origin of SHANKS

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 SHANKS 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 SHANKS 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 SHANKS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	190	1.66
White (Hispanic)	159	1.39
Native American/Alaskan	111	0.97
Asian/Pacific	62	0.54
White (Caucasian)	9,151	80.02
Black/African American	1,763	15.42

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

Similar names to SHANKS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHANKS.

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.