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The SHENG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,202 20512 0 4
United States (1880 census) 4 102640 0 0
Change since 1880 +1198 +82128 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 76 17985 0 5
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for SHENG by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 408 5615 0.001 12
New York 138 11177 0.001 7
New Jersey 104 7664 0.001 12
Texas 86 14732 0.000 4
Michigan 47 21735 0.000 5
Top States for SHENG by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 104 7664 0.001 12
California 408 5615 0.001 12
Nevada 18 10529 0.001 9
New York 138 11177 0.001 7
Washington DC 4 13162 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of SHENG

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the SHENG surname.

Ethnic distribution of SHENG in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 30 2.5
Mixed Race 18 1.5
White (Hispanic) 16 1.33
Asian/Pacific 1,136 94.51
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 SHENG surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

SHENG is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of SHENG in historical publications

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

Similar names to SHENG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHENG.

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 SHENG

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