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The surname Shackleford

A surname, carried by 3,751 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S241

Shackleford: #8,746 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Shackleford #8,746, 3,751 people Shackleford: #8,746 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Shackleford #8,746, 3,751 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shackleford is more common than 94.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,751 people named Shackleford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 82,310 Americans. That is up 5.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,563.

#8,746
rank among US surnames
3,751
people in 2010
1.3
per 100,000 Americans
+5.3%
change since 2000 (was #8,514)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#8,741Bitner3,75382,266
#8,743Seabolt3,75282,288
#8,746Shackleford3,75182,310
#8,747Stansberry3,75082,332
#8,749Boutin3,74982,354
#8,753Westerfield3,74882,376

Who is named Shackleford

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

55% of people named Shackleford identified as white (not Hispanic), 39% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 55%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 39%
  • Two or more races 2.2%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Shackleford

Shackleford has the Soundex code S241, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S241.

Questions

How common is the surname Shackleford?
3,751 people in the United States had the surname Shackleford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 82,310 Americans. It ranked 8,746th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Shackleford?
In the 2010 Census, 55% of people named Shackleford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 39% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Shackleford getting more or less common?
More common. 3,563 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,751 in 2010, up 5.3%.