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The SHERN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 231 77222 0 1
United States (1880 census) 48 50770 0 1
Change since 1880 +183 -26452 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 3 205217 0 0
United Kingdom 9 30909 0 0
Top States for SHERN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 29 54683 0.000 1
Minnesota 28 21078 0.001 6
Missouri 27 17577 0.000 5
Colorado 19 20312 0.000 4
Ohio 19 44086 0.000 2
Top States for SHERN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 4 23687 0.001 6
North Dakota 4 18351 0.001 6
Minnesota 28 21078 0.001 6
Idaho 7 17810 0.001 5
Missouri 27 17577 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of SHERN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 168 72.73
Black/African American 49 21.21
Asian/Pacific 10 4.33
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of SHERN in historical publications

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

Similar names to SHERN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHERN.

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 SHERN

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