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    The surname Shain

    A surname, carried by 2,478 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S500

    Shain: #12,510 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Shain #12,510, 2,478 people Shain: #12,510 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Shain #12,510, 2,478 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shain is more common than 92.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,478 people named Shain in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 124,595 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,198.

    #12,510
    rank among US surnames
    2,478
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +12.7%
    change since 2000 (was #12,839)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,504Gum2,479124,544
    #12,510Shain2,478124,595
    #12,514Freire2,477124,645
    #12,519Ratzlaff2,476124,695

    Who is named Shain

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

    90% of people named Shain identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.2% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 2.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 4.2%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Shain

    Shain has the Soundex code S500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S500.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Shain?
    2,478 people in the United States had the surname Shain in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 124,595 Americans. It ranked 12,510th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shain?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Shain identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.2% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Is the surname Shain getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,198 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,478 in 2010, up 13%.