The surname Shirah
A surname, carried by 1,368 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S600
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,368 people named Shirah in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 225,691 Americans. That is up 8.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,261.
#19,697
rank among US surnames
1,368
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+8.5%
change since 2000 (was #19,759)
Who is named Shirah
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
97% of people named Shirah identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.0% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 97%
- Two or more races 1.0%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Shirah has the Soundex code S600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S600.
Questions
- How common is the surname Shirah?
- 1,368 people in the United States had the surname Shirah in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 225,691 Americans. It ranked 19,697th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Shirah?
- In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Shirah identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.0% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Shirah getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,261 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,368 in 2010, up 8.5%.