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    The surname Shehan

    A surname, carried by 1,800 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S500

    Shehan: #16,087 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Shehan #16,087, 1,800 people Shehan: #16,087 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Shehan #16,087, 1,800 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shehan is more common than 90.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,800 people named Shehan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 171,525 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,784.

    #16,087
    rank among US surnames
    1,800
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.9%
    change since 2000 (was #15,167)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,079Wynkoop1,801171,430
    #16,087Shehan1,800171,525

    Who is named Shehan

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

    95% of people named Shehan identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Shehan

    Shehan has the Soundex code S500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S500.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Shehan?
    1,800 people in the United States had the surname Shehan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 171,525 Americans. It ranked 16,087th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shehan?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Shehan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Shehan getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,784 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,800 in 2010, up 0.9%.