Shreve
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Different form of Sheriff
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Shreve is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 30Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 44Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 53K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shreve itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 337 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
6,321 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Different form of Sheriff.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shreve counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 6,321 | 1 in 53K | 6.3K | Shreve | 337 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 221K | — | Shreve | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 83K | 41 | Shreve | 23 |
| EG Egypt | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 216K | — | Shreve | 3 |
| CA Canada | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Shreve | 54 |
| SG Singapore | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Shreve | 2 |
| IE Ireland | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Shreve | 2 |
6,321 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Shreve is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of shirreve
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Henry Miller Shreveb. 1785USAmerican businessman (1785–1851)
- Milton William Shreveb. 1858USAmerican politician (1858–1939)
- Lev Shreveb. 1869USAmerican baseball player
- Richmond Shreveb. 1877USCanadian-American architect (1877–1946)
- Forrest Shreveb. 1878USAmerican botanist (1878-1950)
- Abdullah the Butcherb. 1941CAnot in their usual nameCanadian professional wrestler
- Anita Shreveb. 1946USAmerican writer (1946–2018)
- Sandy Shreveb. 1950CACanadian poet
- Porter Shreveb. 1967USAmerican author and professor
- Chasen Shreveb. 1990USAmerican baseball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.3K | #5,503 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.3K | #5,129 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6K | #5,602 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 16 | #104,899 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shreve mean, and where does it come from?
- Different form of Sheriff. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Shreve have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.3 thousand people named Shreve, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shreve.
- How common is the name Shreve?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,321 people named Shreve in 2010, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shreveThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shreve”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.