The surname Shoulders
A surname, carried by 2,744 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S436
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,744 people named Shoulders in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 112,517 Americans. That is up 6.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,574.
#11,472
rank among US surnames
2,744
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+6.6%
change since 2000 (was #11,273)
Who is named Shoulders
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
55% of people named Shoulders identified as white (not Hispanic), 40% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 55%
- Black (not Hispanic) 40%
- Two or more races 2.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Shoulders has the Soundex code S436, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S436.
Questions
- How common is the surname Shoulders?
- 2,744 people in the United States had the surname Shoulders in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 112,517 Americans. It ranked 11,472nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Shoulders?
- In the 2010 Census, 55% of people named Shoulders identified as white (not Hispanic), and 40% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Shoulders getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,574 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,744 in 2010, up 6.6%.