The surname Shows
A surname, carried by 2,691 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex S200
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,691 people named Shows in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 114,733 Americans. That is down 5.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,835.
#11,648
rank among US surnames
2,691
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
-5.1%
change since 2000 (was #10,419)
Who is named Shows
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
91% of people named Shows identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 91%
- Black (not Hispanic) 4.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Shows
Shows has the Soundex code S200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S200.
Questions
- How common is the surname Shows?
- 2,691 people in the United States had the surname Shows in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 114,733 Americans. It ranked 11,648th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Shows?
- In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Shows identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Shows getting more or less common?
- Less common. 2,835 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,691 in 2010, down 5.1%.