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    The surname Spiers

    A surname, carried by 2,989 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S162

    Spiers: #10,692 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Spiers #10,692, 2,989 people Spiers: #10,692 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Spiers #10,692, 2,989 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Spiers is more common than 93.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,989 people named Spiers in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 103,294 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,888.

    #10,692
    rank among US surnames
    2,989
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.5%
    change since 2000 (was #10,243)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,683Hayashi2,992103,190
    #10,686Runkle2,991103,225
    #10,689Guice2,990103,259
    #10,692Spiers2,989103,294
    #10,697Zellers2,988103,328
    #10,701Lamkin2,987103,363

    Who is named Spiers

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

    94% of people named Spiers identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Spiers

    Spiers 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 Spiers?
    2,989 people in the United States had the surname Spiers in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,294 Americans. It ranked 10,692nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Spiers?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Spiers identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Spiers getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,888 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,989 in 2010, up 3.5%.