How common is the surname Spalding?

8,601 people in the United States had the surname Spalding in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 35,896 Americans. It ranked 4,125th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Spalding?

Esperanza Spalding, American jazz bassist and singer (born 1984), followed by Albert Spalding.

Where is the surname Spalding most common?

Wikidata records people named Spalding in the United States, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Singapore.

Is the surname Spalding getting more or less common?

More common. 8,363 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,601 in 2010, up 2.8%.

The surname Spalding

A place surname, carried by 8,601 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S143

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Spalding is more common than 97.5% of them.

Origin

An English and Scottish habitational surname.

Spalding is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 8,601 people named Spalding in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 35,896 Americans. That is up 2.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,363.

#4,125

rank among US surnames

8,601

people in 2010

2.9

per 100,000 Americans

+2.8%

change since 2000 (was #3,905)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,121	Ibanez	8,614	35,842
#4,123	Hernandes	8,612	35,851
#4,124	Garrido	8,605	35,880
#4,125	Spalding	8,601	35,896

Who is named Spalding

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

88% of people named Spalding identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 88%
Black (not Hispanic) 6.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Spaldings

10 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Esperanza Spalding
American jazz bassist and singer (born 1984)
Albert Spalding
American pitcher, manager, and business executive (1850–1915)
Martin John Spalding
(1810-1872), Archbishop of Baltimore
Mark Spalding
American Roman Catholic bishop, born 1965
Baird Thomas Spalding
(1872-1953) American writer
Burleigh F. Spalding
American politician (1853-1934)
Dale Spalding
American singer, born 1949
Albert Spalding
American violinist (1888-1953)
Douglas Spalding
British biologist, 1841–1877
Kaylani Lei
American pornographic actress, born 1980

Notable Spaldings come mostly from the United States (8), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1) and Singapore (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Spaulding

Surnames that sound like Spalding

Spaulding

Spalding has the Soundex code S143, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S143.

Questions

How common is the surname Spalding?: 8,601 people in the United States had the surname Spalding in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 35,896 Americans. It ranked 4,125th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Spalding?: In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Spalding identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Spalding?: Esperanza Spalding, American jazz bassist and singer (born 1984), followed by Albert Spalding.
Where is the surname Spalding most common?: Wikidata records people named Spalding in the United States, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Singapore.
What type of surname is Spalding?: Spalding is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Spalding getting more or less common?: More common. 8,363 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,601 in 2010, up 2.8%.
What are other spellings of Spalding?: Spaulding.