The surname Sheffield
An English place surname, carried by 19,738 people in the United States.
Pronounced /ˈʃɛfiːld/ 2 syllables Soundex S143
Origin
English origin
From the name of the River Sheaf, which is from Old English scēaþ (“boundary”), + Old English feld (“field, open land”).
Sheffield is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 19,738 people named Sheffield in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 15,642 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 18,983.
Who is named Sheffield
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
76% of people named Sheffield identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 76%
- Black (not Hispanic) 19%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- Two or more races 1.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Famous Sheffields
10 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first
- Frederick SheffieldAmerican rower (1902–1971)
- Rob SheffieldAmerican music journalist (born 1966)
- Johnny SheffieldAmerican actor (1931-2010)
- Magnus SheffieldAmerican cyclist, born 2002
- Charlotte SheffieldAmerican beauty queen (1936–2016)
- Gary SheffieldAmerican professional baseball outfielder (born 1968)
- Jeremy SheffieldBritish actor, born 1966
- Chris SheffieldAmerican actor, born 1988
- Scott SheffieldAmerican mathematician, born 1973
- William Paine Sheffield Sr.American politician (1820-1907)
Notable Sheffields come mostly from the United States (9) and the United Kingdom (1).
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Sheffield has the Soundex code S143, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S143.
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Questions
- Where does the surname Sheffield come from?
- From the name of the River Sheaf, which is from Old English scēaþ (“boundary”), + Old English feld (“field, open land”).
- How common is the surname Sheffield?
- 19,738 people in the United States had the surname Sheffield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 15,642 Americans. It ranked 1,817th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Sheffield?
- In the 2010 Census, 76% of people named Sheffield identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Who is the most famous person named Sheffield?
- Frederick Sheffield, American rower (1902–1971), followed by Rob Sheffield.
- Where is the surname Sheffield most common?
- Wikidata records people named Sheffield in the United States and the United Kingdom.
- How do you pronounce Sheffield?
- Sheffield is /ˈʃɛfiːld/, 2 syllables.
- What type of surname is Sheffield?
- Sheffield is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Sheffield getting more or less common?
- More common. 18,983 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 19,738 in 2010, up 4.0%.