How common is the surname Shirk?

7,448 people in the United States had the surname Shirk in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 41,453 Americans. It ranked 4,754th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Shirk?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Shirk identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Shirk getting more or less common?

More common. 6,487 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,448 in 2010, up 15%.

The surname Shirk

A surname, carried by 7,448 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shirk is more common than 97.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,448 people named Shirk in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 41,453 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,487.

#4,754

rank among US surnames

7,448

people in 2010

2.5

per 100,000 Americans

+14.8%

change since 2000 (was #4,969)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,745	Freund	7,465	41,359
#4,746	Piatt	7,463	41,370
#4,747	Cloutier	7,461	41,381
#4,749	Derr	7,456	41,409
#4,751	Posada	7,454	41,420
#4,752	Pointer	7,453	41,426
#4,753	Brannan	7,452	41,431

Who is named Shirk

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

96% of people named Shirk identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
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 Shirk

Shirk 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 Shirk?: 7,448 people in the United States had the surname Shirk in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 41,453 Americans. It ranked 4,754th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Shirk?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Shirk identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Shirk getting more or less common?: More common. 6,487 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,448 in 2010, up 15%.