How common is the surname Shelden?

1,075 people in the United States had the surname Shelden in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 287,205 Americans. It ranked 23,604th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Shelden?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Shelden identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Shelden getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,084 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,075 in 2010, down 0.8%.

The surname Shelden

A surname, carried by 1,075 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S435

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shelden is more common than 85.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,075 people named Shelden in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 287,205 Americans. That is down 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,084.

#23,604

rank among US surnames

1,075

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-0.8%

change since 2000 (was #22,212)

Who is named Shelden

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

94% of people named Shelden identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Shelden

Shelden has the Soundex code S435, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S435.

Questions

How common is the surname Shelden?: 1,075 people in the United States had the surname Shelden in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 287,205 Americans. It ranked 23,604th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Shelden?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Shelden identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Shelden getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,084 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,075 in 2010, down 0.8%.