How common is the surname Speece?

1,260 people in the United States had the surname Speece in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 245,036 Americans. It ranked 20,910th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Speece?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Speece identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Speece getting more or less common?

More common. 1,193 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,260 in 2010, up 5.6%.

The surname Speece

A surname, carried by 1,260 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S120

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Speece is more common than 87.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,260 people named Speece in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 245,036 Americans. That is up 5.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,193.

#20,910

rank among US surnames

1,260

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+5.6%

change since 2000 (was #20,629)

Who is named Speece

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

95% of people named Speece identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
Two or more races 0.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, 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

Surnames that sound like Speece

Speck

Speece has the Soundex code S120, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S120.

Questions

How common is the surname Speece?: 1,260 people in the United States had the surname Speece in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 245,036 Americans. It ranked 20,910th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Speece?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Speece identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Speece getting more or less common?: More common. 1,193 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,260 in 2010, up 5.6%.