The surname Spates
A surname, carried by 2,742 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex S132
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,742 people named Spates in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 112,599 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,404.
#11,476
rank among US surnames
2,742
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+14.1%
change since 2000 (was #11,928)
Who is named Spates
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
61% of people named Spates identified as Black (not Hispanic), 32% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.0% as two or more races.
- Black (not Hispanic) 61%
- White (not Hispanic) 32%
- Two or more races 4.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Spates has the Soundex code S132, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S132.
Questions
- How common is the surname Spates?
- 2,742 people in the United States had the surname Spates in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 112,599 Americans. It ranked 11,476th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Spates?
- In the 2010 Census, 61% of people named Spates identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 32% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Spates getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,404 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,742 in 2010, up 14%.