How common is the surname Share?

817 people in the United States had the surname Share in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 377,902 Americans. It ranked 29,041st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Share?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Share identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Who is the most famous person named Share?

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

Where is the surname Share most common?

Wikidata records people named Share in the United States.

Is the surname Share getting more or less common?

Less common. 991 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 817 in 2010, down 18%.

The surname Share

A surname, carried by 817 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Share is more common than 82.1% of them.

Origin

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

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 817 people named Share in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 377,902 Americans. That is down 18% since 2000, when the Census counted 991.

#29,041

rank among US surnames

817

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

-17.6%

change since 2000 (was #23,815)

Who is named Share

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

94% of people named Share identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 2.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Asian and Pacific Islander 2.6%
Two or more races 2.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Shares

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Chuck Share
American basketball player (1927–2012)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Share

Share has the Soundex code S600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S600.

Questions

Where does the surname Share come from?: * As an English surname, perhaps a variant of Shear. * As a Serbo-Croatian surname, Americanized from Šare, Sare.
How common is the surname Share?: 817 people in the United States had the surname Share in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 377,902 Americans. It ranked 29,041st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Share?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Share identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Who is the most famous person named Share?: Chuck Share, American basketball player (1927–2012).
Where is the surname Share most common?: Wikidata records people named Share in the United States.
Is the surname Share getting more or less common?: Less common. 991 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 817 in 2010, down 18%.