# Shulman (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/shulman/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 4,104 |
| US rank (2010) | 8,076 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 75,230 people |
| Change since 2000 | 0.0% (4,105 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Of Jewish-Ashkenazi origin, literally meaning "synagogue-man".

## Who carries it

Share of people named Shulman in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 96% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.8% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.5% |
| Two or more races | 0.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Shulman in the United States.

## People named Shulman

- Yury Shulman, Belarusian-American chess grandmaster
- Julius Shulman, American photographer (1910–2009)
- Constance Shulman, American actress
- Lee Shulman, American educational psychologist
- Alix Kates Shulman, American writer
- Joe Shulman, American musician (1923–1957)
- Tom Schulman, American film director and screenwriter (born 1950)
- J. Neil Schulman, American novelist (1953-2019)

## Similar surnames

Shellman, Schulman, Selman, Soliman, Salman, Sellman, Suleiman, Soloman, Sulaiman, Sloman, Solomon, Salmon.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.