The surname Shackleton
An English place surname, carried by 979 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex S243
Origin
English origin
Habitational surname from a place in West Yorkshire, from an unattested Old English word *sċacol (“tongue of land”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Shackleton is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 979 people named Shackleton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 315,368 Americans. That is up 20% since 2000, when the Census counted 818.
Who is named Shackleton
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named Shackleton identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 90%
- Black (not Hispanic) 5.3%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Shackleton come from?
- Habitational surname from a place in West Yorkshire, from an unattested Old English word *sċacol (“tongue of land”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
- How common is the surname Shackleton?
- 979 people in the United States had the surname Shackleton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 315,368 Americans. It ranked 25,295th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Shackleton?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Shackleton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Shackleton?
- Shackleton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Shackleton getting more or less common?
- More common. 818 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 979 in 2010, up 20%.