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    The surname Shreve

    A surname, carried by 6,321 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S610

    Shreve: #5,503 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Shreve #5,503, 6,321 people Shreve: #5,503 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Shreve #5,503, 6,321 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shreve is more common than 96.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,321 people named Shreve in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 48,844 Americans. That is up 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,282.

    #5,503
    rank among US surnames
    6,321
    people in 2010
    2.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.6%
    change since 2000 (was #5,129)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,499Ozuna6,32748,798
    #5,500Cifuentes6,32548,814
    #5,502Luevano6,32448,821
    #5,503Shreve6,32148,844

    Who is named Shreve

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

    94% of people named Shreve identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Shreves

    2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Anita Shreve
      American writer (1946–2018)
    • Forrest Shreve
      American botanist (1878-1950)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Shreve

    Shreve has the Soundex code S610, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S610.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Shreve?
    6,321 people in the United States had the surname Shreve in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 48,844 Americans. It ranked 5,503rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shreve?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Shreve identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Who is the most famous person named Shreve?
    Anita Shreve, American writer (1946–2018), followed by Forrest Shreve.
    Where is the surname Shreve most common?
    Wikidata records people named Shreve in the United States.
    Is the surname Shreve getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,282 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,321 in 2010, up 0.6%.