Shanks

11,395 people in the United States were counted with the surname Shanks in the 2020 census, making it the 3,075th most common in the country. That is about one person in 26,200.

By the numbers

People: 11,395
Rank: 3,075th
How common: 1 in 26,200
Per 100,000: 3.8

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.1%
Black, not Hispanic 16.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Shanks

Michael Shanks (born 1970)Canadian actor
Alison Shanks (born 1982)New Zealand racing cyclist
Don Shanks (born 1950)American stuntman
John Shanks (born 1961)American songwriter and record producer

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

Surnames like Shanks

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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.