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    The surname Shutter

    An English occupational surname, carried by 608 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S360

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shutter is more common than 77.4% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Two main origins: * Occupational surname for a marksman, from an agent derivative of Middle English shoten (“to shoot”). * An Americanized spelling of Schutter.

    Shutter is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 608 people named Shutter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 507,805 Americans. That is down 17% since 2000, when the Census counted 733.

    #36,736
    rank among US surnames
    608
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -17.1%
    change since 2000 (was #30,161)

    Who is named Shutter

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

    94% of people named Shutter identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
    • Two or more races 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    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 Shutter

    Shutter has the Soundex code S360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S360.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Shutter come from?
    Two main origins: * Occupational surname for a marksman, from an agent derivative of Middle English shoten (“to shoot”). * An Americanized spelling of Schutter.
    How common is the surname Shutter?
    608 people in the United States had the surname Shutter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 507,805 Americans. It ranked 36,736th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shutter?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Shutter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Shutter?
    Shutter is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Shutter getting more or less common?
    Less common. 733 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 608 in 2010, down 17%.