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The SHEWARD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 385 50903 0 1
United States (1880 census) 144 24440 0 3
Change since 1880 +241 -26463 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 40 30209 0 2
United Kingdom 620 7593 0.001 14
Top States for SHEWARD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 89 13376 0.001 8
Indiana 75 8852 0.001 12
California 31 61457 0.000 1
Florida 27 48486 0.000 2
Pennsylvania 24 49959 0.000 2
Top States for SHEWARD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 75 8852 0.001 12
Ohio 89 13376 0.001 8
Oklahoma 17 16892 0.000 5
Michigan 22 47717 0.000 2
Pennsylvania 24 49959 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of SHEWARD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 369 95.84
Black/African American 9 2.34
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
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 SHEWARD surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of SHEWARD in historical publications

SHEWARD. The same as Saward and Seward.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to SHEWARD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHEWARD.

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 SHEWARD

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