How common is the surname Shrum?

5,146 people in the United States had the surname Shrum in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 59,997 Americans. It ranked 6,583rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Shrum?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Shrum identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Shrum getting more or less common?

More common. 5,009 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,146 in 2010, up 2.7%.

The surname Shrum

A surname, carried by 5,146 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S650

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shrum is more common than 95.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,146 people named Shrum in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 59,997 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,009.

#6,583

rank among US surnames

5,146

people in 2010

1.7

per 100,000 Americans

+2.7%

change since 2000 (was #6,267)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,576	McCandless	5,149	59,962
#6,578	Hartung	5,148	59,974
#6,579	Lemos	5,147	59,986
#6,583	Hammel	5,146	59,997
#6,586	Rigdon	5,145	60,009
#6,587	Matz	5,143	60,032

Who is named Shrum

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

95% of people named Shrum identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Shrum

Shrum has the Soundex code S650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S650.

Questions

How common is the surname Shrum?: 5,146 people in the United States had the surname Shrum in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 59,997 Americans. It ranked 6,583rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Shrum?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Shrum identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Shrum getting more or less common?: More common. 5,009 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,146 in 2010, up 2.7%.