The SHEARER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	17,545	1878	0.006	65
United States (1880 census)	5,770	1059	0.012	115
Change since 1880	+11775	-819	-0.006	-50
Other Countries
Australia	1,536	1066	0.009	94
United Kingdom	4,731	1324	0.01	103

Top States for SHEARER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	2,729	417	0.022	222
California	1,361	2305	0.004	40
Ohio	1,269	1036	0.011	112
Florida	976	2079	0.006	61
Texas	885	2587	0.004	42
Top States for SHEARER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	2,729	417	0.022	222
Kentucky	741	798	0.018	183
Alaska	91	851	0.015	145
Oregon	402	998	0.012	117
Indiana	703	1030	0.012	116

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

Classification and Origin of SHEARER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	577	3.29
White (Hispanic)	232	1.32
Mixed Race	211	1.2
Asian/Pacific	105	0.6
Native American/Alaskan	70	0.4
White (Caucasian)	16,348	93.18

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

Similar names to SHEARER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHEARER.

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.