as a Last Name
- 11,139
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Shanks
Meaning & Origins
Scottish and northern Irish: nickname for someone with long legs or some peculiarity of gait, from Old English sceanca ‘shin bone’, ‘leg’. This vocabulary word was preserved in Scotland, whereas in England it was replaced by Old Norse leggr.
| 2,788th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 11,139
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kentucky
- has the most people named Shanks per capita
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