How common is the surname Shankland?

565 people in the United States had the surname Shankland in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 546,452 Americans. It ranked 39,004th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Shankland?

In the 2010 Census, 98% of people named Shankland identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Shankland?

Sam Shankland, American chess grandmaster, followed by Tom Shankland.

Where is the surname Shankland most common?

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

Is the surname Shankland getting more or less common?

More common. 556 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 565 in 2010, up 1.6%.

The surname Shankland

An English place surname, carried by 565 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S524

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shankland is more common than 76% of them.

Origin

English origin

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

Shankland is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 565 people named Shankland in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 546,452 Americans. That is up 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 556.

#39,004

rank among US surnames

565

people in 2010

0.2

per 100,000 Americans

+1.6%

change since 2000 (was #37,640)

Who is named Shankland

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

98% of people named Shankland identified as white (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 98%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Shanklands

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Sam Shankland
American chess grandmaster, born 1991
Tom Shankland
British director, born 1968

Notable Shanklands come mostly from the United States (1) and the United Kingdom (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Shanklin

Surnames that sound like Shankland

Shankland has the Soundex code S524, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S524.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Shankland come from?: Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place in Scotland, most likely from Old English sċanca (“leg”) + land (“land”), equivalent to shank + land.
How common is the surname Shankland?: 565 people in the United States had the surname Shankland in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 546,452 Americans. It ranked 39,004th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Shankland?: In the 2010 Census, 98% of people named Shankland identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Shankland?: Sam Shankland, American chess grandmaster, followed by Tom Shankland.
Where is the surname Shankland most common?: Wikidata records people named Shankland in the United States and the United Kingdom.
What type of surname is Shankland?: Shankland is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Shankland getting more or less common?: More common. 556 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 565 in 2010, up 1.6%.
What are other spellings of Shankland?: Shanklin.