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The surname Shobe

A surname, carried by 1,647 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S100

Shobe: #17,193 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Shobe #17,193, 1,647 people Shobe: #17,193 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Shobe #17,193, 1,647 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shobe is more common than 89.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,647 people named Shobe in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 187,459 Americans. That is up 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,634.

#17,193
rank among US surnames
1,647
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+0.8%
change since 2000 (was #16,249)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#17,193Vancleve1,647187,459
#17,202Entrekin1,646187,573

Who is named Shobe

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

78% of people named Shobe identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 78%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 17%
  • Two or more races 2.0%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Shobe

Shobe 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 Shobe?
1,647 people in the United States had the surname Shobe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 187,459 Americans. It ranked 17,193rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Shobe?
In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Shobe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Shobe getting more or less common?
More common. 1,634 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,647 in 2010, up 0.8%.