Shipley

At the 2020 census, 18,543 Americans bore the surname Shipley — 1,901st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 16,100.

By the numbers

People: 18,543
Rank: 1,901st
How common: 1 in 16,100
Per 100,000: 6.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English scēap (“sheep”) + lēah (“meadow, field, pasture”), thus a field for grazing sheep; equivalent. Compare Gateley.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Shipley

Jenny Shipley (born 1952)New Zealand politician

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

Surnames like Shipley

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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.