Shoemaker

At the 2020 census, 29,407 Americans bore the surname Shoemaker — 1,178th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 10,200.

By the numbers

People: 29,407
Rank: 1,178th
How common: 1 in 10,200
Per 100,000: 9.8

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

By proprialization from shoemaker.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Shoemaker

Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928–1997)American geologist and astronomer
Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929–2021)American astronomer, researcher and university teacher
Craig Shoemaker (born 1958)American stand-up comedian
Bill Shoemaker (1931–2003)American jockey
Ann Shoemaker (1891–1978)American actress

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

Surnames like Shoemaker

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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.