Shear

At the 2020 census, 3,015 Americans bore the surname Shear — 10,179th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 99,100.

By the numbers

People: 3,015
Rank: 10,179th
How common: 1 in 99,100
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

From Middle English schyre (“pure, bright, fair”). Also a German surname, variant of Schier, itself a variant of Scheuer or from a cognate of the Middle English word.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 1.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Shear

Emmett Shear (born 1983)American businessperson

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

Surnames like Shear

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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.