Shankar

3,257 people in the United States were counted with the surname Shankar in the 2020 census, making it the 9,545th most common in the country. That is about one person in 91,800.

By the numbers

People: 3,257
Rank: 9,545th
How common: 1 in 91,800
Per 100,000: 1.1

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 91.6%
White, not Hispanic 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Shankar

Ravi Shankar (1920–2012)Indian sitar player
Anoushka Shankar (born 1981)British-American musician
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (born 1956)Indian guru and spiritual leader
Ramsewak Shankar (born 1937)4th President of Suriname
Uday Shankar (1900–1977)Indian dancer, choreographer, and actor
Melinda Shankar (born 1992)Canadian actress
L. Shankar (born 1950)Indian violinist and composer

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

Surnames like Shankar

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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.