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    The surname Shiflet

    A surname, carried by 1,779 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S143

    Shiflet: #16,228 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Shiflet #16,228, 1,779 people Shiflet: #16,228 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Shiflet #16,228, 1,779 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shiflet is more common than 90% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,779 people named Shiflet in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 173,550 Americans. That is up 9.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,627.

    #16,228
    rank among US surnames
    1,779
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.3%
    change since 2000 (was #16,302)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,219Stennett1,780173,453
    #16,228Thiede1,779173,550

    Who is named Shiflet

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

    91% of people named Shiflet identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Shiflet

    Shiflet has the Soundex code S143, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S143.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Shiflet?
    1,779 people in the United States had the surname Shiflet in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 173,550 Americans. It ranked 16,228th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shiflet?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Shiflet identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Shiflet getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,627 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,779 in 2010, up 9.3%.