Shorter

Shorter is the 4,189th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,194 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 36,500.

By the numbers

People: 8,194
Rank: 4,189th
How common: 1 in 36,500
Per 100,000: 2.7

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 58.4%
White, not Hispanic 32.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Shorter

Wayne Shorter (1933–2023)American jazz saxophonist and composer
Frank Shorter (born 1947)American long-distance runner
John Gill Shorter (1818–1872)American politician

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

Surnames like Shorter

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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.