# Shankland (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/shankland/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 565 |
| US rank (2010) | 39,004 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 546,452 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.6% (556 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Shanklin |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place in Scotland, most likely from Old English sċanca (“leg”) + land (“land”), equivalent to shank + land.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Shankland in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 98% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 0.9% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Shankland in the United States and the United Kingdom.

## People named Shankland

- Sam Shankland, American chess grandmaster
- Tom Shankland, British director

## Similar surnames

Shanklin, Shankle, Singleton, Sinclair, Singletary, Sanmiguel, Swingle, Singley, Senecal, Shinkle, Shingleton, Samsel.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.