How common is the surname Shellman?

1,416 people in the United States had the surname Shellman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 218,041 Americans. It ranked 19,177th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Shellman getting more or less common?

More common. 1,283 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,416 in 2010, up 10%.

The surname Shellman

A surname, carried by 1,416 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S455

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shellman is more common than 88.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,416 people named Shellman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 218,041 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,283.

#19,177

rank among US surnames

1,416

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+10.4%

change since 2000 (was #19,480)

Who is named Shellman

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

52% of people named Shellman identified as white (not Hispanic), 43% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 52%
Black (not Hispanic) 43%
Two or more races 3.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Shellman

Shellman has the Soundex code S455, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S455.

Questions

How common is the surname Shellman?: 1,416 people in the United States had the surname Shellman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 218,041 Americans. It ranked 19,177th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Shellman?: In the 2010 Census, 52% of people named Shellman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 43% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Shellman getting more or less common?: More common. 1,283 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,416 in 2010, up 10%.