Shin

At the 2020 census, 22,958 Americans bore the surname Shin — 1,517th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 13,000.

By the numbers

People: 22,958
Rank: 1,517th
How common: 1 in 13,000
Per 100,000: 7.7

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 94.0%
White, not Hispanic 2.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Hispanic or Latino 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.01%

Notable people called Shin

Shin Saimdang (1504–1551)calligraphist and noted poet
Shin Sang-ok (1926–2006)South Korean film producer and director
Shin Tae-yong (born 1970)South Korean footballer
Shin Kyung-sook (born 1963)South Korean writer
Shin Min-a (born 1984)South Korean model and actress, born 1984
Shin Ryu-jin (born 2001)South Korean singer, rapper and dancer
Shin Sae-kyeong (born 1990)South Korean actress
Shin Hae-sun (born 1989)South Korean actress

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

Surnames like Shin

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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.