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    The surname Spera

    A surname, carried by 1,534 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S160

    Spera: #18,144 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Spera #18,144, 1,534 people Spera: #18,144 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Spera #18,144, 1,534 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Spera is more common than 88.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,534 people named Spera in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 201,268 Americans. That is up 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,503.

    #18,144
    rank among US surnames
    1,534
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.1%
    change since 2000 (was #17,334)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #18,137Hulin1,535201,137
    #18,144McGirt1,534201,268

    Who is named Spera

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

    97% of people named Spera identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
    • 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 Spera

    Spera 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 Spera?
    1,534 people in the United States had the surname Spera in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 201,268 Americans. It ranked 18,144th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Spera?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Spera identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Spera getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,503 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,534 in 2010, up 2.1%.