# Spies (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/spies/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 3,508 |
| US rank (2010) | 9,279 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 88,012 people |
| Change since 2000 | -1.7% (3,570 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Spies in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 95% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.8% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.0% |
| Two or more races | 1.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Spies in the United States and Germany.

## People named Spies

- Ben Spies, American motorcycle racer
- August Vincent Theodore Spies, American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper editor (1855-1887)

## Similar surnames

Sipes, Spiess, Speas, Speaks, Shives, Savage, Speck, Shabazz, Sopko, Sabbagh, Sipos, Sobieski.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.