How common is the surname Shortt?

2,834 people in the United States had the surname Shortt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 108,943 Americans. It ranked 11,163rd of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Shortt getting more or less common?

More common. 2,616 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,834 in 2010, up 8.3%.

The surname Shortt

A surname, carried by 2,834 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S630

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shortt is more common than 93.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,834 people named Shortt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 108,943 Americans. That is up 8.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,616.

#11,163

rank among US surnames

2,834

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+8.3%

change since 2000 (was #11,126)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,156	Ranieri	2,837	108,828
#11,158	Stirling	2,836	108,867
#11,160	Helland	2,835	108,905
#11,163	Pittenger	2,834	108,943
#11,168	Dewar	2,833	108,982
#11,170	Gines	2,832	109,020

Who is named Shortt

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

89% of people named Shortt identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 89%
Black (not Hispanic) 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Shortt

Shortt has the Soundex code S630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S630.

Questions

How common is the surname Shortt?: 2,834 people in the United States had the surname Shortt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 108,943 Americans. It ranked 11,163rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Shortt?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Shortt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Shortt getting more or less common?: More common. 2,616 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,834 in 2010, up 8.3%.