Shoals Surname

605,571st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 512 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Shoals Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Shoals Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States5051:717,74056,514
England41:13,929,515290,718
Pakistan11:178,643,885213,220
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403
Romania11:20,077,87089,414
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England21:12,187,685173,419
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States901:557,98538,227

Shoals (12) may also be a first name.

Shoals Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Shoals Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Shoals occurs most in The United States. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Shoals? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 605,571st most widely held last name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 14,233,488 people. The last name Shoals is predominantly found in The Americas, where 99 percent of Shoals live; 99 percent live in North America and 99 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 3,306,491st most frequently occurring first name internationally. It is borne by 12 people.

Shoals is most common in The United States, where it is borne by 505 people, or 1 in 717,740. In The United States Shoals is most prevalent in: California, where 25 percent are found, Oklahoma, where 13 percent are found and Texas, where 13 percent are found. Aside from The United States it occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in England, where 1 percent are found and Pakistan, where 0 percent are found.

Shoals Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Shoals has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Shoals surname expanded 561 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 200 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Shoals Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Shoals surname are 7.4% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 54.17% registered with the political party.

Shoals earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 20.48% less than the national average, earning $34,314 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Shoales9253/
Schoals9237/
Soals9142/
Schoales86185/
Soales8388/
Choals8327/
Soalse834/
Shaols831/
Sahols831/
Schoehals801/
Sohails771/
Soalles771/
Soeales770/
Choales770/
Chaols672/
Saouls671/
Saoles670/
Saeoles621/
Saoulles571/

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Shoals Reference & Research

Scholes DNA Website - A web page dedicated to the genetic research of those who bear the surname and its variants.

Scholes FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.

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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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Shoals
  • To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on Family​Search, My​Heritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis