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    The surname Speer

    A surname, carried by 11,770 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S160

    Speer: #3,041 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Speer #3,041, 11,770 people Speer: #3,041 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Speer #3,041, 11,770 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Speer is more common than 98.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 11,770 people named Speer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 26,232 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 11,749.

    #3,041
    rank among US surnames
    11,770
    people in 2010
    4.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.2%
    change since 2000 (was #2,806)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,032O'Sullivan11,81826,125
    #3,033Delvalle11,81626,129
    #3,034Hite11,81026,143
    #3,035Arenas11,80926,145
    #3,036Tomlin11,79726,172
    #3,037Cardwell11,79126,185
    #3,038Milam11,78726,194

    Who is named Speer

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

    92% of people named Speer identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Speers

    2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Hugo Speer
      British actor, born 1969
    • Scott Speer
      American film director and music video director, born 1982

    Notable Speers come mostly from the United Kingdom (1) and the United States (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Speer

    Speer has the Soundex code S160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S160.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Speer?
    11,770 people in the United States had the surname Speer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 26,232 Americans. It ranked 3,041st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Speer?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Speer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Who is the most famous person named Speer?
    Hugo Speer, British actor, followed by Scott Speer.
    Where is the surname Speer most common?
    Wikidata records people named Speer in the United Kingdom and the United States.
    Is the surname Speer getting more or less common?
    More common. 11,749 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 11,770 in 2010, up 0.2%.