How common is the surname Shetler?

4,886 people in the United States had the surname Shetler in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 63,190 Americans. It ranked 6,881st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Shetler?

In the 2010 Census, 98% of people named Shetler identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Shetler getting more or less common?

More common. 3,545 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,886 in 2010, up 38%.

The surname Shetler

A surname, carried by 4,886 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S346

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shetler is more common than 95.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,886 people named Shetler in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 63,190 Americans. That is up 38% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,545.

#6,881

rank among US surnames

4,886

people in 2010

1.7

per 100,000 Americans

+37.8%

change since 2000 (was #8,557)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,876	Jeanlouis	4,891	63,125
#6,877	Ku	4,888	63,164
#6,880	Im	4,887	63,177
#6,881	Shetler	4,886	63,190

Who is named Shetler

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

98% of people named Shetler identified as white (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 98%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.8%
Two or more races 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
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 Shetler

Shetler has the Soundex code S346, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S346.

Questions

How common is the surname Shetler?: 4,886 people in the United States had the surname Shetler in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 63,190 Americans. It ranked 6,881st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Shetler?: In the 2010 Census, 98% of people named Shetler identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Shetler getting more or less common?: More common. 3,545 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,886 in 2010, up 38%.