How common is the surname Spahr?

2,989 people in the United States had the surname Spahr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,294 Americans. It ranked 10,692nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Spahr?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Spahr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Spahr getting more or less common?

More common. 2,984 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,989 in 2010, up 0.2%.

The surname Spahr

A surname, carried by 2,989 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S160

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Spahr is more common than 93.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,989 people named Spahr in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 103,294 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,984.

#10,692

rank among US surnames

2,989

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+0.2%

change since 2000 (was #9,978)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,683	Hayashi	2,992	103,190
#10,686	Runkle	2,991	103,225
#10,689	Guice	2,990	103,259
#10,692	Spiers	2,989	103,294
#10,697	Zellers	2,988	103,328
#10,701	Lamkin	2,987	103,363

Who is named Spahr

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

95% of people named Spahr identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Spahr

Spahr has the Soundex code S160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S160.

Questions

How common is the surname Spahr?: 2,989 people in the United States had the surname Spahr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,294 Americans. It ranked 10,692nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Spahr?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Spahr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Spahr getting more or less common?: More common. 2,984 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,989 in 2010, up 0.2%.