Shapiro

22,812 people in the United States were counted with the surname Shapiro in the 2020 census, making it the 1,530th most common in the country. That is about one person in 13,100.

By the numbers

People: 22,812
Rank: 1,530th
How common: 1 in 13,100
Per 100,000: 7.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Yiddish

. This surname is derived from the Medieval name of Speyer, Germany (compare Spire, the French name for that city). Other name variants attributed to Speyer include Sapiro, Spira, Spire, Spiro, Spero, Chapiro, Sprai, Szpir, Szpiro, Sapir, and Spear. The Jewish community of Speyer was one of three leading cities central to the development of Ashkenazi culture, the others being Worms and Mainz.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.06%

Notable people called Shapiro

Ben Shapiro (born 1984)American conservative political commentator
Josh Shapiro (born 1973)American politician
Helen Shapiro (born 1946)British singer and actress
Lucy Shapiro (born 1940)American developmental biologist
Beth Shapiro (born 1976)American evolutionary molecular biologist
Theodore Shapiro (born 1971)American composer
Irwin I. Shapiro (born 1929)American astrophysicist
Francine Shapiro (1948–2019)American psychologist

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

Surnames like Shapiro

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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.