How common is the surname Shehata?

1,031 people in the United States had the surname Shehata in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 299,462 Americans. It ranked 24,325th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Shehata?

In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Shehata identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Shehata getting more or less common?

More common. 576 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,031 in 2010, up 79%.

The surname Shehata

An Arabic surname, carried by 1,031 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S300

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shehata is more common than 85% of them.

Origin

Arabic origin

Borrowed from Arabic شَحَّاتَة (šaḥḥāta), from شَحَّات (šaḥḥāt, “beggar”). In the Dictionary of American Family Names, the surname is given as a variant of Shehadeh, which is apparently from a different root. This surname is predominantly found in Egypt.

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 1,031 people named Shehata in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 299,462 Americans. That is up 79% since 2000, when the Census counted 576.

#24,325

rank among US surnames

1,031

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

+79%

change since 2000 (was #36,630)

Who is named Shehata

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

91% of people named Shehata identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.5% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.5%
Two or more races 2.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Shehata

Shehata 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 Shehata come from?: Borrowed from Arabic شَحَّاتَة (šaḥḥāta), from شَحَّات (šaḥḥāt, “beggar”). In the Dictionary of American Family Names, the surname is given as a variant of Shehadeh, which is apparently from a different root. This surname is predominantly found in Egypt.
How common is the surname Shehata?: 1,031 people in the United States had the surname Shehata in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 299,462 Americans. It ranked 24,325th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Shehata?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Shehata identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Shehata getting more or less common?: More common. 576 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,031 in 2010, up 79%.