Shrewsberry Surname

420,074th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 826 people bear this surname

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

Shrewsberry Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Shrewsberry Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States8161:444,19038,145
England91:6,190,895170,599
Ghana11:27,020,69223,742
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England71:3,482,19689,582
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1111:452,42132,615

Shrewsberry Last Name Facts

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

Shrewsberry is most common in The United States. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Shrewsberry? popularity and diffusion

Shrewsberry is the 420,074th most frequently held surname in the world, borne by around 1 in 8,822,695 people. It is mostly found in The Americas, where 99 percent of Shrewsberry live; 99 percent live in North America and 99 percent live in Anglo-North America.

The surname Shrewsberry is most frequently used in The United States, where it is carried by 816 people, or 1 in 444,190. In The United States Shrewsberry is most prevalent in: West Virginia, where 24 percent reside, Ohio, where 13 percent reside and Virginia, where 12 percent reside. Not including The United States this last name occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in England, where 1 percent reside and Ghana, where 0 percent reside.

Shrewsberry Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Shrewsberry has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Shrewsberry last name grew 735 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it grew 129 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Shrewsberry Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Shrewsberry surname are 5.76% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 52.53% being registered with the party.

Shrewsberry earn somewhat less than the average income. In United States they earn 8.33% less than the national average, earning $39,555 USD per year.

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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 Shrewsberry
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