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    The surname Shoults

    A surname, carried by 1,226 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S432

    Shoults: #21,360 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Shoults #21,360, 1,226 people Shoults: #21,360 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Shoults #21,360, 1,226 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shoults is more common than 86.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,226 people named Shoults in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 251,832 Americans. That is up 5.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,163.

    #21,360
    rank among US surnames
    1,226
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.4%
    change since 2000 (was #21,054)

    Who is named Shoults

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

    96% of people named Shoults identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as two or more races and 1.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Shoults

    Shoults has the Soundex code S432, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S432.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Shoults?
    1,226 people in the United States had the surname Shoults in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 251,832 Americans. It ranked 21,360th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shoults?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Shoults identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Shoults getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,163 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,226 in 2010, up 5.4%.