How common is the surname Speth?

1,467 people in the United States had the surname Speth in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 210,460 Americans. It ranked 18,724th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Speth?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Speth identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Speth getting more or less common?

More common. 1,434 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,467 in 2010, up 2.3%.

The surname Speth

A German surname, carried by 1,467 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S130

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Speth is more common than 88.5% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Speth.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,467 people named Speth in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 210,460 Americans. That is up 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,434.

#18,724

rank among US surnames

1,467

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+2.3%

change since 2000 (was #17,960)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,715	Larrea	1,468	210,317
#18,724	Clyne	1,467	210,460
#18,729	Woodmansee	1,466	210,604

Who is named Speth

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

94% of people named Speth identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.9%
Two or more races 1.8%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Speth

Speth has the Soundex code S130, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S130.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Speth come from?: Borrowed from German Speth.
How common is the surname Speth?: 1,467 people in the United States had the surname Speth in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 210,460 Americans. It ranked 18,724th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Speth?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Speth identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Speth getting more or less common?: More common. 1,434 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,467 in 2010, up 2.3%.