Shipman

Shipman is the 2,431st most common surname in the United States, shared by 14,539 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 20,600.

By the numbers

People: 14,539
Rank: 2,431st
How common: 1 in 20,600
Per 100,000: 4.9

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Either from sheep + man, or from shipman.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.6%
Black, not Hispanic 14.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Shipman

Harold Shipman (1946–2004)English doctor and serial killer
Madisyn Shipman (born 2002)American actress
Nell Shipman (1892–1970)actress, screenwriter, producer, animal trainer

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

Surnames like Shipman

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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.