How common is the surname Sheets?

21,384 people in the United States had the surname Sheets in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,438 Americans. It ranked 1,685th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Sheets?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Sheets identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Sheets?

Ben Sheets, American baseball pitcher.

Where is the surname Sheets most common?

Wikidata records people named Sheets in the United States.

Is the surname Sheets getting more or less common?

More common. 20,786 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,384 in 2010, up 2.9%.

The surname Sheets

A surname, carried by 21,384 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S320

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sheets is more common than 99% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 21,384 people named Sheets in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 14,438 Americans. That is up 2.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 20,786.

#1,685

rank among US surnames

21,384

people in 2010

7.3

per 100,000 Americans

+2.9%

change since 2000 (was #1,582)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,676	Raines	21,518	14,348
#1,677	Thacker	21,512	14,352
#1,678	Sadler	21,504	14,358
#1,679	Sotelo	21,455	14,390
#1,681	Cote	21,446	14,396
#1,682	Bower	21,445	14,397
#1,683	Miner	21,439	14,401

Who is named Sheets

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

94% of people named Sheets identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Sheetss

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Ben Sheets
American baseball pitcher, born 1978

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sheets

Sheets 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 Sheets?: 21,384 people in the United States had the surname Sheets in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,438 Americans. It ranked 1,685th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sheets?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Sheets identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Sheets?: Ben Sheets, American baseball pitcher.
Where is the surname Sheets most common?: Wikidata records people named Sheets in the United States.
Is the surname Sheets getting more or less common?: More common. 20,786 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,384 in 2010, up 2.9%.