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The surname Sharrow

A surname, carried by 1,891 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S600

Sharrow: #15,483 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sharrow #15,483, 1,891 people Sharrow: #15,483 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sharrow #15,483, 1,891 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sharrow is more common than 90.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,891 people named Sharrow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 163,271 Americans. That is up 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,631.

#15,483
rank among US surnames
1,891
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+15.9%
change since 2000 (was #16,275)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#15,477Parga1,892163,185
#15,483Gridley1,891163,271

Who is named Sharrow

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

90% of people named Sharrow identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

  • White (not Hispanic) 90%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 3.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 2.6%
  • Two or more races 2.0%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sharrow

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

Questions

How common is the surname Sharrow?
1,891 people in the United States had the surname Sharrow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 163,271 Americans. It ranked 15,483rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sharrow?
In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Sharrow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Sharrow getting more or less common?
More common. 1,631 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,891 in 2010, up 16%.