The surname Shaker
A surname, carried by 1,243 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S260
Origin
From Arabic.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,243 people named Shaker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 248,387 Americans. That is up 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,070.
#21,119
rank among US surnames
1,243
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+16.2%
change since 2000 (was #22,443)
Who is named Shaker
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named Shaker identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.9% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 3.1% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 90%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 3.9%
- Two or more races 3.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Shaker has the Soundex code S260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S260.
Questions
- Where does the surname Shaker come from?
- From Arabic.
- How common is the surname Shaker?
- 1,243 people in the United States had the surname Shaker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 248,387 Americans. It ranked 21,119th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Shaker?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Shaker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- Is the surname Shaker getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,070 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,243 in 2010, up 16%.