Shum (surname)


Shum is a surname in various cultures.

Origins

Shum may be the spelling of the Cantonese pronunciation of two Chinese surnames, listed below by their spelling in Pinyin :
Shum is also an English surname. Early records of the surname in England in the International Genealogical Index of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints include one bearer in 1748 in London and another in 1768 in Toddington, Bedfordshire.
The German surname Shum is a variant spelling of Schum or Schumm, which originated as a toponymic surname after a place in Upper Saxony. It is also found as an Ashkenazi Jewish surname.

Statistics

According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, there were 342 people on the island of Great Britain and 21 on the island of Ireland with the surname Shum as of 2011. The 1881 United Kingdom census found 73 people with the surname, primarily in London and Staffordshire.
The 2010 United States Census found 2,222 people with the surname Shum, making it the 13,627th-most-common surname in the country. This represented an increase from 2,025 in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, about four-fifths of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, and fourteen percent as White.

People

Chinese surname Cén ()