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    The surname Shenton

    An English place surname, carried by 550 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S535

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shenton is more common than 75.4% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From the name of the River Sence, which is from Old English sċenċ (“drinking cup”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

    Shenton is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 550 people named Shenton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 561,356 Americans. That is down 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 571.

    #39,887
    rank among US surnames
    550
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3.7%
    change since 2000 (was #36,860)

    Who is named Shenton

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

    96% of people named Shenton identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Shenton

    Shenton has the Soundex code S535, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S535.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Shenton come from?
    From the name of the River Sence, which is from Old English sċenċ (“drinking cup”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
    How common is the surname Shenton?
    550 people in the United States had the surname Shenton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 561,356 Americans. It ranked 39,887th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shenton?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Shenton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Shenton?
    Shenton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Shenton getting more or less common?
    Less common. 571 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 550 in 2010, down 3.7%.