The surname Shofner
A surname, carried by 1,904 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S156
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,904 people named Shofner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 162,156 Americans. That is up 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,882.
#15,397
rank among US surnames
1,904
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+1.2%
change since 2000 (was #14,521)
Who is named Shofner
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Shofner identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 88%
- Black (not Hispanic) 7.6%
- Two or more races 1.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Shofner has the Soundex code S156, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S156.
Questions
- How common is the surname Shofner?
- 1,904 people in the United States had the surname Shofner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 162,156 Americans. It ranked 15,397th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Shofner?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Shofner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Shofner getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,882 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,904 in 2010, up 1.2%.