How common is the surname Span?

1,167 people in the United States had the surname Span in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 264,563 Americans. It ranked 22,144th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Span?

Brian Span, American soccer player.

Where is the surname Span most common?

Wikidata records people named Span in Sweden.

Is the surname Span getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,169 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,167 in 2010, down 0.2%.

The surname Span

A surname, carried by 1,167 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S150

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Span is more common than 86.4% of them.

Origin

* 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).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,167 people named Span in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 264,563 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,169.

#22,144

rank among US surnames

1,167

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-0.2%

change since 2000 (was #20,960)

Who is named Span

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

53% of people named Span identified as Black (not Hispanic), 39% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.3% as two or more races.

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

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Famous Spans

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Brian Span
American soccer player, born 1992

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Span

Span has the Soundex code S150, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S150.

Questions

Where does the surname Span come from?: * 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).
How common is the surname Span?: 1,167 people in the United States had the surname Span in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 264,563 Americans. It ranked 22,144th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Span?: In the 2010 Census, 53% of people named Span identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 39% as white (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Span?: Brian Span, American soccer player.
Where is the surname Span most common?: Wikidata records people named Span in Sweden.
Is the surname Span getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,169 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,167 in 2010, down 0.2%.