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The SHEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 278 66476 0 1
United States (1880 census) 365 12343 0.001 7
Change since 1880 -87 -54133 +N/A -6
Other Countries
Australia 7 119335 0 0
United Kingdom 9 30841 0 0
Top States for SHEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 56 39645 0.000 2
Florida 30 50280 0.000 2
Iowa 21 19792 0.001 7
New York 19 88343 0.000 1
Rhode Island 18 8778 0.002 17
Top States for SHEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 18 8778 0.002 17
Iowa 21 19792 0.001 7
Delaware 4 34792 0.001 5
Oregon 8 45621 0.000 2
Connecticut 7 63714 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 SHEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SHEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SHEY in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SHEY by picking someone at random in Rhode Island than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SHEY

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

Ethnic distribution of SHEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 234 84.17
Asian/Pacific 26 9.35
Black/African American 11 3.96
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of SHEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to SHEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHEY.

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 SHEY

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