How common is the surname Shaffner?

1,327 people in the United States had the surname Shaffner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 232,664 Americans. It ranked 20,125th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Shaffner getting more or less common?

About as common. 1,327 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,327 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.

The surname Shaffner

A surname, carried by 1,327 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S156

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shaffner is more common than 87.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,327 people named Shaffner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 232,664 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,327.

#20,125

rank among US surnames

1,327

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

change since 2000 (was #18,994)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#20,116	Degenhardt	1,328	232,489
#20,125	Epting	1,327	232,664

Who is named Shaffner

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

95% of people named Shaffner identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Shaffner

Shaffner has the Soundex code S156, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S156.

Questions

How common is the surname Shaffner?: 1,327 people in the United States had the surname Shaffner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 232,664 Americans. It ranked 20,125th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Shaffner?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Shaffner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Shaffner getting more or less common?: About as common. 1,327 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,327 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.