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The SHEAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 888 25969 0 3
United States (1880 census) 1,258 4485 0.003 25
Change since 1880 -370 -21484 +N/A -22
Other Countries
Australia 251 6140 0.002 15
United Kingdom 230 15118 0.001 5
Top States for SHEAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 142 17174 0.000 4
New York 110 17227 0.001 6
Pennsylvania 73 19870 0.001 6
Massachusetts 70 11206 0.001 11
Ohio 43 28039 0.000 4
Top States for SHEAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 23 6716 0.002 18
Massachusetts 70 11206 0.001 11
Colorado 29 18104 0.001 7
Rhode Island 7 19325 0.001 7
Oregon 21 19851 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 SHEAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SHEAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SHEAN in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SHEAN by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SHEAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 819 92.23
Asian/Pacific 27 3.04
White (Hispanic) 19 2.14
Mixed Race 14 1.58
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of SHEAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to SHEAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHEAN.

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 SHEAN

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