# Share (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 817 |
| US rank (2010) | 29,041 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 377,902 people |
| Change since 2000 | -17.6% (991 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, perhaps a variant of Shear. * As a Serbo-Croatian surname, Americanized from Šare, Sare.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Share 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) | 94% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 0.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.6% |
| Two or more races | 2.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Share in the United States.

## People named Share

- Chuck Share, American basketball player (1927–2012)

## Similar surnames

Shore, Shirey, Shear, Sher, Shorey, Sharrow, Shire, Shier, Sayre, Swarey, Square, Schaar.

## 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.