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    The surname Shade

    A surname, carried by 7,148 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S300

    Shade: #4,919 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Shade #4,919, 7,148 people Shade: #4,919 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Shade #4,919, 7,148 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shade is more common than 97% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 7,148 people named Shade in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 43,193 Americans. That is up 3.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,940.

    #4,919
    rank among US surnames
    7,148
    people in 2010
    2.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3%
    change since 2000 (was #4,674)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,910Null7,17043,061
    #4,912Binkley7,15943,127
    #4,913Blodgett7,15743,139
    #4,914Garrity7,15643,145
    #4,915Phung7,15543,151
    #4,916Rambo7,15443,157
    #4,917Goodin7,15343,163

    Who is named Shade

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

    76% of people named Shade identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 76%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 17%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Shade

    Shade has the Soundex code S300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S300.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Shade?
    7,148 people in the United States had the surname Shade in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 43,193 Americans. It ranked 4,919th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shade?
    In the 2010 Census, 76% of people named Shade identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Shade getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,940 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,148 in 2010, up 3.0%.