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    The surname Shores

    A surname, carried by 7,691 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S620

    Shores: #4,613 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Shores #4,613, 7,691 people Shores: #4,613 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Shores #4,613, 7,691 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shores is more common than 97.2% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 7,691 people named Shores in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 40,144 Americans. That is up 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,342.

    #4,613
    rank among US surnames
    7,691
    people in 2010
    2.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.8%
    change since 2000 (was #4,453)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,609Whyte7,70140,092
    #4,610Ovalle7,69840,107
    #4,611Everson7,69440,128
    #4,613Shores7,69140,144

    Who is named Shores

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

    86% of people named Shores identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 86%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

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    Surnames that sound like Shores

    Shores has the Soundex code S620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S620.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Shores?
    7,691 people in the United States had the surname Shores in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 40,144 Americans. It ranked 4,613th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shores?
    In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Shores identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Shores getting more or less common?
    More common. 7,342 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,691 in 2010, up 4.8%.