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    The surname Spikes

    A surname, carried by 4,586 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S122

    Spikes: #7,265 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Spikes #7,265, 4,586 people Spikes: #7,265 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Spikes #7,265, 4,586 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Spikes is more common than 95.5% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,586 people named Spikes in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 67,323 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,367.

    #7,265
    rank among US surnames
    4,586
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5%
    change since 2000 (was #7,063)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,258Futch4,59167,250
    #7,261Beggs4,59067,265
    #7,264Humble4,58867,294
    #7,265Spikes4,58667,323
    #7,268Fullmer4,58567,338
    #7,270Grube4,58467,353

    Who is named Spikes

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

    56% of people named Spikes identified as Black (not Hispanic), 38% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 56%
    • White (not Hispanic) 38%
    • Two or more races 3.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Spikes

    Spikes has the Soundex code S122, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S122.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Spikes?
    4,586 people in the United States had the surname Spikes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 67,323 Americans. It ranked 7,265th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Spikes?
    In the 2010 Census, 56% of people named Spikes identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 38% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Spikes getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,367 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,586 in 2010, up 5.0%.