Shane

Shane is the 5,101st most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,661 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 44,900.

By the numbers

People: 6,661
Rank: 5,101st
How common: 1 in 44,900
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish, from a patronymic

Anglicized form of the Northern Irish pronunciation of Irish Seán, from Old French Jehan, from Latin Johannes, variant of Ioannes, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης, from Hebrew יוֹחָנָן.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Shane described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 83.6%
Black, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%

Notable people called Shane

Sara Shane (1928–2022)American actress
Shane (born 1969)American former pornographic actress, director, producer

People named Shane with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Shane

Also a first name

Shane has been given to 196,166 American babies as a first name since 1933, peaking in 1973. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.