Sheffield

Sheffield is the 1,900th most common surname in the United States, shared by 18,548 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 16,100.

By the numbers

People: 18,548
Rank: 1,900th
How common: 1 in 16,100
Per 100,000: 6.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From the name of the River Sheaf, which is from Old English scēaþ (“boundary”), + Old English feld (“field, open land”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 73.4%
Black, not Hispanic 17.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Sheffield

Frederick Sheffield (1902–1971)American rower
Rob Sheffield (born 1966)American music journalist
Johnny Sheffield (1931–2010)American actor
Charles Sheffield (1935–2002)British mathematician, physicist and writer
Magnus Sheffield (born 2002)American cyclist
Bill Sheffield (1928–2022)Governor of Alaska
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1648–1721)English poet and politician

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

Surnames like Sheffield

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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.