Shumate
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈʃuˌmeɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shumate is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 40K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 71K
- LRLiberia≈1 in 11K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 357 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
8,311 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shumate 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 | — | 8,311 | 1 in 40K | 8.3K | Shumate | 357 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Shumate | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 71K | 7 | Shumate | 21 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Shumate | 2 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Shumate | 4 |
| LR Liberia | #241 | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Shumate | 3 |
| CU Cuba | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Shumate | 1 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Shumate | 1 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Shumate | 5 |
8,311 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Harold Shumateb. 1893USscreenwriter (1893–1983)
- Whitney Shumateb. 1896American businessman and civic leader
- Frederick Ortman Shumateb. 1901Doctor, heir
- John Shumateb. 1952USAmerican basketball player-coach
- Mark Shumateb. 1960USAmerican football player
- Jabar Shumateb. 1976USAmerican politician
- Chris Shumateb. 1981USbasketball player
- John Shumateb. 1984UScollege basketball player (2004–2004) Yale
- Elijah Shumateb. 1994football player (born 1994)
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)
Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.3K | #4,276 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.2K | #3,981 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.9K | #4,349 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 7 | #182,958 |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Shumate?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃuˌmeɪt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Shumate have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.3 thousand people named Shumate, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shumate.
- How common is the name Shumate?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,311 people named Shumate in 2010, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
- How common is Shumate compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Shumate is the 241st most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shumate?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shumateThe 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, “Shumate” — the 241st most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.