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    The surname Spainhour

    A German surname, carried by 1,110 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S156

    Spainhour: #23,019 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Spainhour #23,019, 1,110 people Spainhour: #23,019 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Spainhour #23,019, 1,110 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Spainhour is more common than 85.8% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Americanized spelling of German Spanhauer.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,110 people named Spainhour in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 278,149 Americans. That is down 2.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,143.

    #23,019
    rank among US surnames
    1,110
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -2.9%
    change since 2000 (was #21,349)

    Who is named Spainhour

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

    96% of people named Spainhour identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    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

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Spainhower

    Surnames that sound like Spainhour

    Spainhour has the Soundex code S156, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S156.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Spainhour come from?
    Americanized spelling of German Spanhauer.
    How common is the surname Spainhour?
    1,110 people in the United States had the surname Spainhour in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 278,149 Americans. It ranked 23,019th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Spainhour?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Spainhour identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Spainhour getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,143 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,110 in 2010, down 2.9%.
    What are other spellings of Spainhour?
    Spainhower.