How rare is the last name Sharkey?

8,059 people in the United States have the last name Sharkey, about 1 in 37,089. It ranks #4,256 of 156,621 last names in the 2020 Census.

last name

SHARKEY

#4,256

of 156,621 last names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,059
About
1 in 37,089
This common or more
56.6%
Who bears it

Of the 8,059 people with the last name Sharkey, 83.5% reported their origin as White, 8.2% as Black and 3.8% as Hispanic or Latino. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Either side of Sharkey

#4,254 Batson · 8,064#4,254 Sarabia · 8,064#4,257 Shifflett · 8,058#4,258 Coppola · 8,050

Spelled almost the same

5 last names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Sharkey, most common first.

#23,720 Shirkey · 1,103#47,272 Shark · 484#47,689 Shorkey · 479#79,118 Sharek · 260#117,309 Sharko · 157

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