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    The surname Shupe

    A surname, carried by 5,861 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S100

    Shupe: #5,888 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Shupe #5,888, 5,861 people Shupe: #5,888 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Shupe #5,888, 5,861 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shupe is more common than 96.4% of them.

    Origin

    From the German surname, Americanized from Schupp.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 5,861 people named Shupe in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 52,678 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,647.

    #5,888
    rank among US surnames
    5,861
    people in 2010
    2.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.8%
    change since 2000 (was #5,639)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,881Spinks5,86852,615
    #5,884Dibble5,86652,633
    #5,886Halpin5,86552,642
    #5,888Shupe5,86152,678
    #5,889Albano5,86052,687
    #5,890Plant5,85852,705
    #5,892McCaskill5,85752,714

    Who is named Shupe

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

    95% of people named Shupe identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Shupe

    Shupe has the Soundex code S100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S100.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Shupe come from?
    From the German surname, Americanized from Schupp.
    How common is the surname Shupe?
    5,861 people in the United States had the surname Shupe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 52,678 Americans. It ranked 5,888th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shupe?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Shupe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Shupe getting more or less common?
    More common. 5,647 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,861 in 2010, up 3.8%.