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    The surname Shover

    A surname, carried by 1,569 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S160

    Shover: #17,836 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Shover #17,836, 1,569 people Shover: #17,836 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Shover #17,836, 1,569 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shover is more common than 89% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,569 people named Shover in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 196,779 Americans. That is up 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,556.

    #17,836
    rank among US surnames
    1,569
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.8%
    change since 2000 (was #16,880)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,836Shover1,569196,779
    #17,839Gautam1,568196,904

    Who is named Shover

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

    94% of people named Shover identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
    • Two or more races 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Shover

    Shover has the Soundex code S160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S160.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Shover?
    1,569 people in the United States had the surname Shover in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 196,779 Americans. It ranked 17,836th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shover?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Shover identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Shover getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,556 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,569 in 2010, up 0.8%.