The Shope surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,239 people carried this name — #7,810 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 69,400 people counted. That is down 1% from 4,277 in 2000.

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In print

Shope in American newspapers,
1907–1927.

Newspaper page from The Wheatland World carrying the name Shope
The Wheatland World 1907-09-27
Newspaper page from The Cordele Dispatch carrying the name Shope
The Cordele Dispatch 1927-09-13
Newspaper page from The Cordele Dispatch carrying the name Shope
The Cordele Dispatch 1927-03-25

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 14,612 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Shope in Australian newspapers,
1870s–1950s.

73 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Shope. The most, 12, date from the 1920s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Victoria, at 1.3 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

Victoria 21
Queensland 17
New South Wales 14
Western Australia 11
South Australia 6
ACT (Canberra) 2
Tasmania 2

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Shope.

Who carried it

People named Shope,
with a public archive behind them.

  • William Krebs Beresford Shope
    William Krebs Beresford Shope 1898–1970 · military officer
  • Richard Shope
    Richard Shope 1901–1966 · virologist
  • Simeon P. Shope 1837–1920 · judge
  • Henry B. Shope 1862–1929 · architect
  • Paul Franklin Shope 1894–1986 · botanist
  • Gertrude Shope 1925–2025 · politician

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Shope,
in the records of 3 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States297 records

297 records of the Shope name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 209
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 63
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 9
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 6
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 5
  • Irish Famine arrivals at New York, 1846–1851 2
  • Riverside Cemetery, Asheville (North Carolina) 1
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 1
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record John I. Shope

    Born 1914 in Pennsylvania. Enlisted 1943 at Fort Myer, Virginia; stenographer. U.S. Army Air Forces veteran; died 1995, buried at Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery, Maryland.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record William G. Shope

    From Greene County, Ohio. U.S. Army, light weapons infantryman; died of wounds 1952 in North Korea.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Stephen A. Shope

    U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War. Born 1946, died 1999; buried at Dayton National Cemetery, Ohio.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 297 records for Shope in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain) · City of Asheville (public domain, PDDL) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

Canada1 record

1 record of the Shope name in Canada Nova Scotia Archives name indexes
  1. A marriage entry in the civil register of Tilburg, 1911
    Example: marriage register, 1911
    Marriage record Sarah Ann Shope

    Married 1875 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

    Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.

Counts: Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain).

Australia1 record

1 record of the Shope name in Australia Tasmanian Names Index
  1. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Death record Charles Shope

    Died 1885 in Fingal, Tasmania, aged 60.

    Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0)

Counts: Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

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