Shen

At the 2020 census, 18,330 Americans bore the surname Shen — 1,925th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 16,300.

By the numbers

People: 18,330
Rank: 1,925th
How common: 1 in 16,300
Per 100,000: 6.1

Where the name comes from

As a Chinese surname of multiple origins:.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 93.9%
White, not Hispanic 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.0%
Hispanic or Latino 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Shen

Shen Kuo (1031–1095)Chinese scientist and statesman
Shen Congwen (1902–1988)Chinese writer
Shen Yue (441–513)Chinese poet, statesman, and historian
Shen Xue (born 1978)Chinese pair skater
Shen Zhou (1427–1509)Chinese painter
Xu Shen (58–147)Chinese author of Shuowen Jiezi
Shen Buhai (384 BC–336 BC)Chinese philosopher and politician (c.400–c.337 BC)
Cen Shen (715–770)poet

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

Surnames like Shen

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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.