How common is the surname Shafer?

25,641 people in the United States had the surname Shafer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 12,041 Americans. It ranked 1,379th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Shafer?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Shafer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Shafer getting more or less common?

More common. 25,498 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 25,641 in 2010, up 0.6%.

The surname Shafer

A surname, carried by 25,641 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S160

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shafer is more common than 99.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 25,641 people named Shafer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 12,041 Americans. That is up 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 25,498.

#1,379

rank among US surnames

25,641

people in 2010

8.7

per 100,000 Americans

+0.6%

change since 2000 (was #1,264)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,370	Worley	25,758	11,986
#1,371	Simons	25,755	11,988
#1,372	Quezada	25,752	11,989
#1,373	Ott	25,738	11,996
#1,374	Ocampo	25,720	12,004
#1,375	Aviles	25,716	12,006
#1,376	Nieto	25,701	12,013

Who is named Shafer

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

94% of people named Shafer identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Shafer

Shafer has the Soundex code S160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S160.

Questions

How common is the surname Shafer?: 25,641 people in the United States had the surname Shafer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 12,041 Americans. It ranked 1,379th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Shafer?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Shafer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Shafer getting more or less common?: More common. 25,498 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 25,641 in 2010, up 0.6%.