The surname Spell
A surname, carried by 5,313 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex S140
Origin
From the German surname, perhaps related to Speller.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 5,313 people named Spell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 58,111 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,238.
Who is named Spell
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
78% of people named Spell identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 78%
- Black (not Hispanic) 18%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- Two or more races 1.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Spell has the Soundex code S140, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S140.
Questions
- Where does the surname Spell come from?
- From the German surname, perhaps related to Speller.
- How common is the surname Spell?
- 5,313 people in the United States had the surname Spell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 58,111 Americans. It ranked 6,404th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Spell?
- In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Spell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Spell getting more or less common?
- More common. 5,238 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,313 in 2010, up 1.4%.