The surname Shumaker
A surname, carried by 8,508 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex S526
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 8,508 people named Shumaker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 36,289 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,381.
#4,165
rank among US surnames
8,508
people in 2010
2.9
per 100,000 Americans
+1.5%
change since 2000 (was #3,893)
Who is named Shumaker
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Shumaker identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Black (not Hispanic) 2.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
- Two or more races 1.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Shumaker
Shumaker has the Soundex code S526, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S526.
Questions
- How common is the surname Shumaker?
- 8,508 people in the United States had the surname Shumaker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 36,289 Americans. It ranked 4,165th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Shumaker?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Shumaker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Shumaker getting more or less common?
- More common. 8,381 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,508 in 2010, up 1.5%.