How common is the surname Shulman?

4,104 people in the United States had the surname Shulman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,230 Americans. It ranked 8,076th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Shulman?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Shulman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Shulman?

Yury Shulman, Belarusian-American chess grandmaster, followed by Julius Shulman.

Where is the surname Shulman most common?

Wikidata records people named Shulman in the United States.

Is the surname Shulman getting more or less common?

About as common. 4,105 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,104 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.

The surname Shulman

A surname, carried by 4,104 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S455

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shulman is more common than 95% of them.

Origin

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

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,104 people named Shulman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 75,230 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,105.

#8,076

rank among US surnames

4,104

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

change since 2000 (was #7,482)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,070	Haider	4,107	75,175
#8,072	McCarley	4,106	75,194
#8,073	Kinley	4,105	75,212
#8,076	Lovely	4,104	75,230
#8,080	Carraway	4,103	75,249
#8,082	Villavicencio	4,102	75,267

Who is named Shulman

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

96% of people named Shulman identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

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

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Shulmans

8 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Yury Shulman
Belarusian-American chess grandmaster, born 1975
Julius Shulman
American photographer (1910–2009)
Constance Shulman
American actress, born 1958
Lee Shulman
American educational psychologist, 1938–2024
Alix Kates Shulman
American writer, born 1932
Joe Shulman
American musician (1923–1957)
Tom Schulman
American film director and screenwriter (born 1950)
J. Neil Schulman
American novelist (1953-2019)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Shulman

Shulman has the Soundex code S455, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S455.

Questions

Where does the surname Shulman come from?: Of Jewish-Ashkenazi origin, literally meaning "synagogue-man".
How common is the surname Shulman?: 4,104 people in the United States had the surname Shulman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,230 Americans. It ranked 8,076th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Shulman?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Shulman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Shulman?: Yury Shulman, Belarusian-American chess grandmaster, followed by Julius Shulman.
Where is the surname Shulman most common?: Wikidata records people named Shulman in the United States.
Is the surname Shulman getting more or less common?: About as common. 4,105 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,104 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.