Last Name SHORTER

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Meaning	Nickname: The shorter, to distinguish between two brothers, etc, of the same Christian name, especially in families where two or three boys were all Johns.

Origin	English, Irish

Rank	4,014 (2000 US census)	2,947 (1990 US census)

Count	8,122 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

39.45%, or 3204 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
56.57%, or 4595 total occurrences, as black,
0.43%, or 35 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.43%, or 35 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
2.2%, or 179 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
0.91%, or 74 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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