Showalter

At the 2020 census, 8,603 Americans bore the surname Showalter — 4,007th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 34,700.

By the numbers

People: 8,603
Rank: 4,007th
How common: 1 in 34,700
Per 100,000: 2.9

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Variant of Schowalter.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Showalter

Elaine Showalter (born 1941)American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues
Max Showalter (1917–2000)American actor
Jackson Showalter (1860–1935)American chess player
Michael Showalter (born 1970)American comedian

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

Surnames like Showalter

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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.