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    The surname Spada

    An Italian surname, carried by 1,887 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S130

    Spada: #15,508 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Spada #15,508, 1,887 people Spada: #15,508 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Spada #15,508, 1,887 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Spada is more common than 90.4% of them.

    Origin

    Italian origin

    Borrowed from Italian Spada.

    One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,887 people named Spada in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 163,617 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,850.

    #15,508
    rank among US surnames
    1,887
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2%
    change since 2000 (was #14,724)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,499Emert1,889163,444
    #15,503Shand1,888163,530
    #15,508Lucht1,887163,617

    Who is named Spada

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    95% of people named Spada identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Spada

    Spada has the Soundex code S130, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S130.

    Other Italian surnames

    All 798 Italian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Spada come from?
    Borrowed from Italian Spada.
    How common is the surname Spada?
    1,887 people in the United States had the surname Spada in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 163,617 Americans. It ranked 15,508th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Spada?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Spada identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Spada getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,850 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,887 in 2010, up 2.0%.