Shields

Shields is the 676th most common surname in the United States, shared by 49,337 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,058.

By the numbers

People: 49,337
Rank: 676th
How common: 1 in 6,058
Per 100,000: 16.5

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 72.8%
Black, not Hispanic 18.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Shields

Brooke Shields (born 1965)U.S. model and actress
Willow Shields (born 2000)American actress
Carol Shields (1935–2003)American/Canadian author
Claressa Shields (born 1995)American boxer
Frank Shields (1909–1975)American tennis player and actor
Kevin Shields (born 1963)Irish musician and record producer
Lawrence Shields (1895–1976)athletics competitor
Tom Shields (born 1991)American swimmer

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

Surnames like Shields

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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.