How common is the surname Sharples?

1,157 people in the United States had the surname Sharples in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 266,850 Americans. It ranked 22,281st of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Sharples?

Ellen Sharples, British artist (1769-1849).

Where is the surname Sharples most common?

Wikidata records people named Sharples in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

How do you pronounce Sharples?

Sharples is /ʃɑːpəlz/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Sharples getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,161 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,157 in 2010, down 0.3%.

The surname Sharples

A surname, carried by 1,157 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ʃɑːpəlz/ 2 syllables Soundex S614

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sharples is more common than 86.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,157 people named Sharples in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 266,850 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,161.

#22,281

rank among US surnames

1,157

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-0.3%

change since 2000 (was #21,088)

Who is named Sharples

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

92% of people named Sharples identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
Two or more races 1.0%

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Sharpless

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Ellen Sharples
British artist (1769-1849)

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Sharples

Sharpless

Sharples has the Soundex code S614, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S614.

Questions

How common is the surname Sharples?: 1,157 people in the United States had the surname Sharples in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 266,850 Americans. It ranked 22,281st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sharples?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Sharples identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Sharples?: Ellen Sharples, British artist (1769-1849).
Where is the surname Sharples most common?: Wikidata records people named Sharples in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
How do you pronounce Sharples?: Sharples is /ʃɑːpəlz/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Sharples getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,161 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,157 in 2010, down 0.3%.