Shumate

At the 2020 census, 7,889 Americans bore the surname Shumate — 4,349th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 37,900.

By the numbers

People: 7,889
Rank: 4,349th
How common: 1 in 37,900
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

Origin French

or de la Chaumette.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.2%
Black, not Hispanic 9.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Shumate

John Shumate (1952–2025)American basketball player-coach

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

Surnames like Shumate

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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.