# Span (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/span/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,167 |
| US rank (2010) | 22,144 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 264,563 people |
| Change since 2000 | -0.2% (1,169 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Slovene surname, from župan (“head of a district”), from župa (“district”); compare Zupan. * As a German surname, variant of Spahn; also Spann. * As a Jewish surname from Span (“chip”) (probably through Yiddish).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Span in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 39% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 53% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.9% |
| Two or more races | 4.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Span in Sweden.

## People named Span

- Brian Span, American soccer player

## Similar surnames

Spann, Spain, Spano, Spina, Spohn, Spoon, Spahn, Sapien, Spino, Supan, Sabin, Savino.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.