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The SHU surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,892 14467 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 31 62756 0 1
Change since 1880 +1861 +48289 +N/A +6
Other Countries
Australia 81 17156 0 5
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for SHU by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 753 3312 0.002 22
New York 259 6128 0.001 14
Texas 121 11439 0.001 6
New Jersey 108 7449 0.001 13
Virginia 52 10340 0.001 7
Top States for SHU by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 753 3312 0.002 22
Delaware 11 9751 0.001 14
New York 259 6128 0.001 14
New Jersey 108 7449 0.001 13
Nevada 19 9980 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of SHU

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

Ethnic distribution of SHU in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 76 4.02
Mixed Race 59 3.12
Black/African American 10 0.53
Asian/Pacific 1,737 91.81
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 SHU surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of SHU in historical publications

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

Similar names to SHU

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHU.

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 SHU

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