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    The surname Shenk

    A surname, carried by 3,314 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S520

    Shenk: #9,778 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Shenk #9,778, 3,314 people Shenk: #9,778 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Shenk #9,778, 3,314 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shenk is more common than 94% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,314 people named Shenk in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 93,164 Americans. That is up 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,291.

    #9,778
    rank among US surnames
    3,314
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.7%
    change since 2000 (was #9,118)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,770Parekh3,31693,108
    #9,777Petrick3,31593,136
    #9,778Shenk3,31493,164
    #9,780Polak3,31393,192
    #9,783Stagg3,31293,220
    #9,784Yowell3,31193,248
    #9,786Loughlin3,30993,305

    Who is named Shenk

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

    96% of people named Shenk identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Shenk

    Shenk has the Soundex code S520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S520.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Shenk?
    3,314 people in the United States had the surname Shenk in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 93,164 Americans. It ranked 9,778th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shenk?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Shenk identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Shenk getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,291 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,314 in 2010, up 0.7%.