Shuman
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Shuman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ghana than in any other country. In Malta it is the 89th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Kent; York. anglicized spelling of German and Jewish Schuler .
- GHGhana≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 37K
- CACanada≈1 in 40K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ghana (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 368 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ghana, 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)
Main GB Location (1881): Kent; York. anglicized spelling of German and Jewish Schuler . • Current frequencies: GB 68, Ireland 0 • GB frequency 1881: 21 • Main GB location 1881: Lancs; Kirkcudbrights German, Jewish (Ashkenazic): respelling of German and Jewish Schumann .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shuman 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | #157 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Shuman | 9 |
| US United States | — | 9,043 | 1 in 37K | 9K | Shuman | 368 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 82 | Shuman | 72 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Shuman | 63 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Shuman | 9 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Shuman | 3 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Shuman | 2 |
| MT Malta | #89 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Shuman | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 49 | 1 in 15K | 49 | — | 3 |
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); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Shuman 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 Russian, Fedko Pavlov syn Shuman, Novgorodite. 1556.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Andrew Shumanb. 1830USAmerican newspaper editor and politician (1830–1890)
- Frank Shumanb. 1862USAmerican inventor (1862–1918)
- Buddy Shumanb. 1915USAmerican stock car racing driver (1915–1955)
- Harry Shumanb. 1915USAmerican baseball player (1915-1996)
- William Shumanb. 1921USAmerican politician
- Amy Shumanb. 1925USAmerican baseball player (1925-2014)
- Mort Shumanb. 1936USAmerican songwriter (1938–1991)
- Ron Shumanb. 1952USAmerican racing driver
- Michael Shumanb. 1985USAmerican musician
- Celia ShumanUSAmerican actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9K | #3,937 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.7K | #3,729 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.2K | #4,184 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 82 | #37,515 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 49 | #576 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Shuman mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Kent; York. anglicized spelling of German and Jewish Schuler . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Shuman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Shuman in Ghana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shuman.
- How common is the name Shuman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,043 people named Shuman in 2010, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Shuman compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Shuman is the 157th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Shuman” — the 157th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.