# Shive (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/shive/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,674 |
| US rank (2010) | 16,975 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 184,436 people |
| Change since 2000 | +0.8% (1,661 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Shive in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 93% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.4% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.8% |
| Two or more races | 1.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Shive in the United States.

## People named Shive

- John N. Shive, American physicist

## Similar surnames

Shipe, Shippee, Shippey, Sapp, Schwab, Shipp, Sabo, Swope, Szabo, Savoy, Schaub, Sipe.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.