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    The surname Sheats

    A surname, carried by 1,591 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S320

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sheats is more common than 89.1% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,591 people named Sheats in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 194,058 Americans. That is up 9.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,448.

    #17,657
    rank among US surnames
    1,591
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.9%
    change since 2000 (was #17,823)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,651Heidel1,592193,936
    #17,657Dattilo1,591194,058
    #17,662Brownstein1,590194,180

    Who is named Sheats

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

    68% of people named Sheats identified as white (not Hispanic), 27% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 68%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 27%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
    • 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 Sheats

    Sheats has the Soundex code S320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S320.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Sheats?
    1,591 people in the United States had the surname Sheats in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 194,058 Americans. It ranked 17,657th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sheats?
    In the 2010 Census, 68% of people named Sheats identified as white (not Hispanic), and 27% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Sheats getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,448 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,591 in 2010, up 9.9%.