How common is the surname Spink?

2,348 people in the United States had the surname Spink in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 131,493 Americans. It ranked 13,079th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Spink?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Spink identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Spink getting more or less common?

More common. 2,345 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,348 in 2010, up 0.1%.

The surname Spink

An English nickname surname, carried by 2,348 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S152

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Spink is more common than 91.9% of them.

Origin

English origin

Originally a nickname from Middle English spink (“chaffinch”).

Spink is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,348 people named Spink in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 131,493 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,345.

#13,079

rank among US surnames

2,348

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+0.1%

change since 2000 (was #12,181)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,073	Nutting	2,349	131,437
#13,079	Spink	2,348	131,493
#13,081	Orduno	2,347	131,549
#13,084	Ormond	2,346	131,605
#13,087	Carpentier	2,345	131,661
#13,088	Pascarella	2,344	131,717

Who is named Spink

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

95% of people named Spink identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%

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 Spink

Spinks

Spink has the Soundex code S152, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S152.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Spink come from?: Originally a nickname from Middle English spink (“chaffinch”).
How common is the surname Spink?: 2,348 people in the United States had the surname Spink in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 131,493 Americans. It ranked 13,079th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Spink?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Spink identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Spink?: Spink is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
Is the surname Spink getting more or less common?: More common. 2,345 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,348 in 2010, up 0.1%.