Shack Surname
Approximately 1,895 people bear this surname
Shack Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1,461 | 1:248,090 | 23,626 |
| Canada | 156 | 1:236,190 | 22,564 |
| England | 105 | 1:530,648 | 33,151 |
| Australia | 47 | 1:574,377 | 41,856 |
| Belize | 28 | 1:12,696 | 1,465 |
| New Zealand | 17 | 1:266,372 | 23,826 |
| Peru | 15 | 1:2,118,942 | 25,723 |
| India | 10 | 1:76,706,538 | 639,611 |
| Malawi | 9 | 1:1,902,123 | 19,532 |
| Malaysia | 6 | 1:4,915,704 | 170,578 |
| Pakistan | 4 | 1:44,660,971 | 115,884 |
| Tanzania | 4 | 1:13,235,403 | 84,310 |
| Israel | 3 | 1:2,852,545 | 113,505 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Ireland | 3 | 1:1,569,646 | 17,286 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Lesotho | 1 | 1:2,032,558 | 23,402 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 1:55,758 | 3,072 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 6 | 1:4,062,562 | 101,150 |
| Scotland | 3 | 1:1,247,739 | 24,719 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 168 | 1:298,921 | 23,746 |
Shack (319) may also be a first name.
Shack Demographics
Average Male Shack Height
176.03 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Shack Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Shack Come From? nationality or country of origin
Shack (Arabic: شاك) is held by more people in The United States than any other country/territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Shack? popularity and diffusion
The surname Shack is the 216,529th most numerous family name throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 3,845,671 people. It is predominantly found in The Americas, where 83 percent of Shack live; 80 percent live in North America and 80 percent live in Anglo-North America. Shack is also the 491,536th most common forename in the world. It is borne by 319 people.
Shack is most commonly used in The United States, where it is carried by 1,461 people, or 1 in 248,090. In The United States it is most numerous in: Florida, where 10 percent live, California, where 10 percent live and New York, where 9 percent live. Apart from The United States this surname exists in 35 countries. It also occurs in Canada, where 8 percent live and England, where 6 percent live.
Shack Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Shack has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Shack surname rose 870 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it rose 1,750 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Shack Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Shack are 0.68% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 52.55% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Shack earn in different countries varies greatly. In Peru they earn 149.65% more than the national average, earning S/. 48,395 per year; in United States they earn 0.53% more than the national average, earning $43,378 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.78% less than the national average, earning $49,294 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Shack Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Shack in the Arabic language | ||
| شاك | shak | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Shack
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