Shank

Shank is the 2,851st most common surname in the United States, shared by 12,319 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 24,300.

By the numbers

People: 12,319
Rank: 2,851st
How common: 1 in 24,300
Per 100,000: 4.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Black, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Shank

Bud Shank (1926–2009)American jazz saxophonist and flautist

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

Surnames like Shank

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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.