How common is the surname Shanklin?

3,804 people in the United States had the surname Shanklin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 81,163 Americans. It ranked 8,645th of 162,253 surnames.

How do you pronounce Shanklin?

Shanklin is /ˈʃæŋklɪn/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Shanklin getting more or less common?

More common. 3,758 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,804 in 2010, up 1.2%.

The surname Shanklin

A surname, carried by 3,804 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈʃæŋklɪn/ 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). Shanklin is more common than 94.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,804 people named Shanklin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 81,163 Americans. That is up 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,758.

#8,645

rank among US surnames

3,804

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+1.2%

change since 2000 (was #8,127)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,639	McSweeney	3,807	81,099
#8,641	Zacharias	3,805	81,142
#8,645	Shanklin	3,804	81,163
#8,646	Weeden	3,803	81,185
#8,648	Burdine	3,802	81,206
#8,649	Cancel	3,801	81,227
#8,650	Reichard	3,799	81,270

Who is named Shanklin

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

53% of people named Shanklin identified as white (not Hispanic), 42% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 53%
Black (not Hispanic) 42%
Two or more races 2.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Shanklin

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

Questions

How common is the surname Shanklin?: 3,804 people in the United States had the surname Shanklin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 81,163 Americans. It ranked 8,645th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Shanklin?: In the 2010 Census, 53% of people named Shanklin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 42% as Black (not Hispanic).
How do you pronounce Shanklin?: Shanklin is /ˈʃæŋklɪn/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Shanklin getting more or less common?: More common. 3,758 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,804 in 2010, up 1.2%.