The SHAW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	155,172	150	0.058	575
United States (1880 census)	43,343	102	0.087	867
Change since 1880	+111829	-48	-0.029	-292
Other Countries
Australia	11,722	87	0.072	717
United Kingdom	68,459	56	0.149	1,491

Top States for SHAW by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	12,127	178	0.058	582
California	11,961	234	0.035	353
Florida	9,830	150	0.062	615
New York	7,261	171	0.038	383
Ohio	7,210	120	0.064	635
Top States for SHAW by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	2,301	38	0.180	1,805
South Carolina	3,876	125	0.097	966
Mississippi	2,747	127	0.097	966
New Hampshire	1,022	92	0.083	827
Utah	1,764	98	0.079	790

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

Classification and Origin of SHAW

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 SHAW 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 SHAW 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 SHAW in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	115,867	74.67
Black/African American	31,391	20.23
Mixed Race	2,560	1.65
White (Hispanic)	2,297	1.48
Asian/Pacific	1,924	1.24
Native American/Alaskan	1,133	0.73

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

Similar names to SHAW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHAW.

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.