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    The surname Shunk

    A surname, carried by 1,393 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S520

    Shunk: #19,398 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Shunk #19,398, 1,393 people Shunk: #19,398 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Shunk #19,398, 1,393 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shunk is more common than 88% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,393 people named Shunk in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 221,641 Americans. That is up 7.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,297.

    #19,398
    rank among US surnames
    1,393
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.4%
    change since 2000 (was #19,328)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,390Rifkin1,394221,482
    #19,398Zaborowski1,393221,641

    Who is named Shunk

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

    95% of people named Shunk identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 2.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Shunk

    Shunk has the Soundex code S520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S520.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Shunk?
    1,393 people in the United States had the surname Shunk in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 221,641 Americans. It ranked 19,398th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shunk?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Shunk identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Is the surname Shunk getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,297 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,393 in 2010, up 7.4%.