The Shull surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 9,565 people carried this name — #3,710 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 30,900 people counted. That is up 3% from 9,310 in 2000.
In the first U.S. census, 1790
21 families named Shull, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.
Each family is counted by its head. About 123 people lived in those households, 5.9 to a family on average. The census counted these spellings together: Shull, Shul. 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
Shull in American newspapers,
1911.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 72,364 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Shull in Australian newspapers,
1860s–1950s.
190 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Shull. The most, 46, date from the 1910s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Queensland, at 2.2 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 Shull.
Who carried it
People named Shull,
with a public archive behind them.
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Joseph Horace Shull 1848–1944 · lawyer -
George Harrison Shull 1874–1954 · university teacher -
J. Marion Shull 1872–1948 · botanist
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J. Marion Shull 1873–1948 · botanist
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Charles Albert Shull 1879–1962 · botanist
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Aaron Franklin Shull 1881–1961 · writer
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Shull,
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 States540 records
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 362
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 122
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 21
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 15
- Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 11
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 8
- U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
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Example: U.S. war memorial War record Sandy Lee ShullBorn 1948; from Nashville, Tennessee. U.S. Marine Corps, field radio operator; died of wounds 1968 in Quang Tri, South Vietnam. Buried at Nashville National Cemetery, Tennessee.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record Donald D. ShullBorn 1916 in Missouri. Enlisted 1944 at Los Angeles, California; farm hand. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1999, buried at Westminster Memorial Park, California.
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 Francisca ShullArrived at New York in 1847 aboard the New York from Havre, aged 19; shoemaker. From Baden, Germany.
U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
Showing 3 of 540 records for Shull 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: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).
Australia1 record
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Example: civil register, 1880 Death record Sydney ShullDied 1887 in Hobart, Tasmania.
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).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Shull.
- 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
- Shuler 11,315 · U.S. census
- Shulman 4,104 · U.S. census
- Shults 4,146 · U.S. census
- Shultz 17,395 · U.S. census
- Shumaker 8,508 · U.S. census
- Shuman 9,043 · U.S. census
- Shumate 8,311 · U.S. census
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