Sherpa

At the 2020 census, 4,304 Americans bore the surname Sherpa — 7,469th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 69,400.

By the numbers

People: 4,304
Rank: 7,469th
How common: 1 in 69,400
Per 100,000: 1.4

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 94.8%
White, not Hispanic 2.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.6%
Hispanic or Latino 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Notable people called Sherpa

Dachhiri Sherpa (born 1969)Nepalese cross-country skier

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

Surnames like Sherpa

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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.