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    The surname Speers

    A surname, carried by 1,953 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S162

    Speers: #15,104 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Speers #15,104, 1,953 people Speers: #15,104 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Speers #15,104, 1,953 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Speers is more common than 90.7% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,953 people named Speers in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 158,088 Americans. That is up 6.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,840.

    #15,104
    rank among US surnames
    1,953
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.1%
    change since 2000 (was #14,799)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,099Schaible1,954158,007
    #15,104Quispe1,953158,088

    Who is named Speers

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

    91% of people named Speers identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as two or more races and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Two or more races 2.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Speers

    Speers has the Soundex code S162, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S162.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Speers?
    1,953 people in the United States had the surname Speers in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 158,088 Americans. It ranked 15,104th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Speers?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Speers identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Speers getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,840 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,953 in 2010, up 6.1%.