The Shriver surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 5,942 people carried this name — #5,817 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 49,800 people counted. That is up 2% from 5,798 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Shriver surname
An anglicization of German Schreiber, originally designating a clerk or a writer.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Shriver» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In the first U.S. census, 1790
59 families named Shriver, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.
Each family is counted by its head. About 328 people lived in those households, 5.6 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 7 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.
Families, by state
U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 261 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.
In print
Shriver in American newspapers,
1891–1918.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 58,699 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Shriver in Australian newspapers,
1900s–1980s.
123 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Shriver. The most, 50, date from the 1960s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in the Australian Capital Territory, at 2.0 times its expected share.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Shriver.
Who carried it
People named Shriver,
with a public archive behind them.
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Thomas H. Shriver 1846–1916 · politician -
Alfred Jenkins Shriver 1867–1939 · lawyer -
Charles S. Reifsnider 1875–1958 · priest -
Garner E. Shriver 1912–1998 · lawyer -
Sargent Shriver 1915–2011 · lawyer
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 65 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Shriver,
in the records of 2 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 States393 records
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 241
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 87
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 35
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 14
- Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 8
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 6
- U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
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Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record William G. ShriverBorn 1912 in Maryland. Enlisted 1942 at Baltimore; stationary engineer from Baltimore City. Veteran; died 1974, buried at Baltimore National Cemetery, Maryland.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Lina ShriverArrived at New York in 1854 aboard the Lina from Bremen, aged 26; joiner. From Bremerhaven, Germany.
U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) -
Example: U.S. war memorial War record Jerry Michael ShriverBorn 1941; from Sacramento, California. U.S. Army, infantryman; declared dead 1969 in Cambodia.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
Showing 3 of 393 records for Shriver in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · 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); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain).
Canada1 record
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Example: civil register, 1880 Civil record George ShriverListed at Digby, Nova Scotia in the census and tax rolls of 1795.
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: Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Shriver.
- Shouse 4,234 · U.S. census
- Showalter 8,786 · U.S. census
- Showers 5,171 · U.S. census
- Shrader 6,855 · U.S. census
- Shreve 6,321 · U.S. census
- Shrewsbury 2,963 · U.S. census
- Shropshire 4,469 · U.S. census
- Shroyer 3,904 · U.S. census
- Shrum 5,146 · U.S. census
- Shubert 4,068 · U.S. census
- Shuck 4,078 · U.S. census
- Shue 3,155 · U.S. census
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