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The surname Shirazi

A surname, carried by 1,064 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S620

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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). Shirazi is more common than 85.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,064 people named Shirazi in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 290,174 Americans. That is up 21% since 2000, when the Census counted 882.

#23,768
rank among US surnames
1,064
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+20.6%
change since 2000 (was #26,104)

Who is named Shirazi

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

64% of people named Shirazi identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 13% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 64%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 18%
  • Two or more races 13%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Shirazi

Shirazi has the Soundex code S620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S620.

Questions

How common is the surname Shirazi?
1,064 people in the United States had the surname Shirazi in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 290,174 Americans. It ranked 23,768th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Shirazi?
In the 2010 Census, 64% of people named Shirazi identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Is the surname Shirazi getting more or less common?
More common. 882 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,064 in 2010, up 21%.