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    The surname Spier

    A surname, carried by 1,679 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S160

    Spier: #16,939 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Spier #16,939, 1,679 people Spier: #16,939 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Spier #16,939, 1,679 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Spier is more common than 89.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,679 people named Spier in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 183,887 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,623.

    #16,939
    rank among US surnames
    1,679
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.5%
    change since 2000 (was #16,341)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,933Morena1,680183,777
    #16,939McBean1,679183,887
    #16,944Pico1,678183,996

    Who is named Spier

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

    95% of people named Spier identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    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 Spier

    Spier 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 Spier?
    1,679 people in the United States had the surname Spier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 183,887 Americans. It ranked 16,939th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Spier?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Spier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Spier getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,623 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,679 in 2010, up 3.5%.