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    The surname Shoaf

    A surname, carried by 3,227 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S100

    Shoaf: #9,994 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Shoaf #9,994, 3,227 people Shoaf: #9,994 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Shoaf #9,994, 3,227 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shoaf is more common than 93.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,227 people named Shoaf in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 95,676 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,195.

    #9,994
    rank among US surnames
    3,227
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1%
    change since 2000 (was #9,357)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,987Chavers3,23095,587
    #9,989Sonnenberg3,22995,616
    #9,991Leek3,22895,646
    #9,994Shoaf3,22795,676
    #9,997Sword3,22595,735
    #9,998Jaques3,22495,765
    #10,001Dubon3,22395,794

    Who is named Shoaf

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

    93% of people named Shoaf identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Shoaf

    Shoaf has the Soundex code S100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S100.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Shoaf?
    3,227 people in the United States had the surname Shoaf in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 95,676 Americans. It ranked 9,994th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shoaf?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Shoaf identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Shoaf getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,195 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,227 in 2010, up 1.0%.