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    The surname Shehadeh

    An Arabic surname, carried by 1,073 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex S300

    Shehadeh: #23,634 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Shehadeh #23,634, 1,073 people Shehadeh: #23,634 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Shehadeh #23,634, 1,073 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shehadeh is more common than 85.4% of them.

    Origin

    Arabic origin

    Borrowed from Arabic شَهَادَة (šahāda, “testimony, witness”).

    One of 179 Arabic surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,073 people named Shehadeh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 287,740 Americans. That is up 58% since 2000, when the Census counted 678.

    #23,634
    rank among US surnames
    1,073
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +58.3%
    change since 2000 (was #32,094)

    Who is named Shehadeh

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

    85% of people named Shehadeh identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.8% as two or more races and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 85%
    • Two or more races 8.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    • Shihadeh

    Surnames that sound like Shehadeh

    Shehadeh has the Soundex code S300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S300.

    Other Arabic surnames

    All 179 Arabic surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Shehadeh come from?
    Borrowed from Arabic شَهَادَة (šahāda, “testimony, witness”).
    How common is the surname Shehadeh?
    1,073 people in the United States had the surname Shehadeh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 287,740 Americans. It ranked 23,634th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shehadeh?
    In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Shehadeh identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.8% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Shehadeh getting more or less common?
    More common. 678 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,073 in 2010, up 58%.
    What are other spellings of Shehadeh?
    Shihadeh.