How common is the surname Shock?

3,248 people in the United States had the surname Shock in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 95,057 Americans. It ranked 9,932nd of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Shock getting more or less common?

More common. 3,162 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,248 in 2010, up 2.7%.

The surname Shock

A surname, carried by 3,248 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shock is more common than 93.9% of them.

Origin

* As an English surname, variant of Shuck. * As a German surname, Americanized from Schock, itself a variant of Scheck, or from the sense Schock (“heap”). Compare Schoch.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,248 people named Shock in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 95,057 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,162.

#9,932

rank among US surnames

3,248

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+2.7%

change since 2000 (was #9,431)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,923	Guay	3,255	94,853
#9,924	Lagos	3,254	94,882
#9,925	Krone	3,253	94,911
#9,927	Wightman	3,252	94,940
#9,928	Srivastava	3,251	94,969
#9,929	Eiland	3,250	94,999
#9,931	Tso	3,249	95,028

Who is named Shock

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

93% of people named Shock identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as two or more races and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Two or more races 2.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Shock

Shock has the Soundex code S200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S200.

Questions

Where does the surname Shock come from?: * As an English surname, variant of Shuck. * As a German surname, Americanized from Schock, itself a variant of Scheck, or from the sense Schock (“heap”). Compare Schoch.
How common is the surname Shock?: 3,248 people in the United States had the surname Shock in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 95,057 Americans. It ranked 9,932nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Shock?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Shock identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as two or more races.
Is the surname Shock getting more or less common?: More common. 3,162 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,248 in 2010, up 2.7%.