Shi

At the 2020 census, 17,207 Americans bore the surname Shi — 2,051st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 17,400.

By the numbers

People: 17,207
Rank: 2,051st
How common: 1 in 17,400
Per 100,000: 5.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Mandarin

Romanization of cmn, , .

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 95.9%
White, not Hispanic 2.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
Hispanic or Latino 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Shi

Su Shi (1037–1101)Chinese writer and politician
Qin Er Shi (229 BC–206 BC)emperor of the Qin Dynasty
Shi Nai'an (1296–1372)Chinese writer
Shi Tingmao (born 1991)Chinese diver
Shi Zhengli (born 1964)Chinese virologist
Xi Shi (505 BC–500 BC)one of the renowned Four Great Beauties of ancient China (b. 506 BC)
Domee Shi (born 1989)Chinese-Canadian filmmaker, animator and storyboarding artist
Shi Le (274–333)Emperor of Later Zhao from 330 to 333

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

Surnames like Shi

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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.