Shore

Shore is the 3,637th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,520 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 31,400.

By the numbers

People: 9,520
Rank: 3,637th
How common: 1 in 31,400
Per 100,000: 3.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

As an English surname, from the noun shore.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.7%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Shore

Howard Shore (born 1946)Canadian film score composer
Dinah Shore (1916–1994)American singer and actress
David Shore (born 1959)Canadian writer, and former lawyer
Pauly Shore (born 1968)American comedian and actor
John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth (1751–1834)Governor-General of India
Eddie Shore (1902–1985)Canadian ice hockey player
Ryan Shore (born 1974)Canadian composer, songwriter, conductor, and music director
Marci Shore (born 1972)American historian

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

Surnames like Shore

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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.