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    The surname Shack

    A surname, carried by 1,146 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S200

    Shack: #22,450 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Shack #22,450, 1,146 people Shack: #22,450 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Shack #22,450, 1,146 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shack is more common than 86.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,146 people named Shack in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 269,411 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,142.

    #22,450
    rank among US surnames
    1,146
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.4%
    change since 2000 (was #21,369)

    Who is named Shack

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    49% of people named Shack identified as Black (not Hispanic), 40% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.6% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 49%
    • White (not Hispanic) 40%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 4.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Shack

    Shack has the Soundex code S200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Shack?
    1,146 people in the United States had the surname Shack in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 269,411 Americans. It ranked 22,450th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shack?
    In the 2010 Census, 49% of people named Shack identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 40% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Shack getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,142 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,146 in 2010, up 0.4%.