The surname Shives
A surname, carried by 1,329 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex S120
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,329 people named Shives in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 232,314 Americans. That is down 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,357.
#20,099
rank among US surnames
1,329
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
-2.1%
change since 2000 (was #18,701)
Who is named Shives
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
89% of people named Shives identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 89%
- Black (not Hispanic) 5.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
- Two or more races 1.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Shives has the Soundex code S120, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S120.
Questions
- How common is the surname Shives?
- 1,329 people in the United States had the surname Shives in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 232,314 Americans. It ranked 20,099th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Shives?
- In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Shives identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Shives getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,357 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,329 in 2010, down 2.1%.