Shearer

17,031 people in the United States were counted with the surname Shearer in the 2020 census, making it the 2,070th most common in the country. That is about one person in 17,600.

By the numbers

People: 17,031
Rank: 2,070th
How common: 1 in 17,600
Per 100,000: 5.7

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.0%
Black, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Shearer

Alan Shearer (born 1970)English footballer
Norma Shearer (1902–1983)Canadian-American actress
Harry Shearer (born 1943)American actor
Hugh Shearer (1923–2004)Prime Minister of Jamaica
Moira Shearer (1926–2006)British ballerina and actress
Douglas Shearer (1899–1971)Canadian sound designer and recording director

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

Surnames like Shearer

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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.