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    The surname Sheikh

    An Arabic surname, carried by 6,462 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S200

    Sheikh: #5,384 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sheikh #5,384, 6,462 people Sheikh: #5,384 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sheikh #5,384, 6,462 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sheikh is more common than 96.7% of them.

    Origin

    Arabic origin

    A surname from Arabic

    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 6,462 people named Sheikh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 47,779 Americans. That is up 74% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,724.

    #5,384
    rank among US surnames
    6,462
    people in 2010
    2.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +73.5%
    change since 2000 (was #8,200)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,375Billups6,47547,683
    #5,376Valentino6,47447,690
    #5,377Newhouse6,47147,712
    #5,378Campo6,47047,720
    #5,379Hatley6,46847,734
    #5,381Rathbun6,46747,742
    #5,382Atherton6,46647,749

    Who is named Sheikh

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

    72% of people named Sheikh identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 8.0% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Asian and Pacific Islander 72%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 14%
    • White (not Hispanic) 8.0%
    • Two or more races 3.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Sheikh

    Sheikh has the Soundex code S200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S200.

    Other Arabic surnames

    All 179 Arabic surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Sheikh come from?
    Sheikh is Arabic in origin.
    How common is the surname Sheikh?
    6,462 people in the United States had the surname Sheikh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 47,779 Americans. It ranked 5,384th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sheikh?
    In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Sheikh identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Sheikh getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,724 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,462 in 2010, up 74%.