# Spira (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/spira/  
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) | 1,034 |
| US rank (2010) | 24,260 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 298,593 people |
| Change since 2000 | +20% (861 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Spira 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) | 98% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.6% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Spira in Belgium, Germany and Austria.

## People named Spira

- Henry Spira, American activist (1927-1998)
- Camilla Spira, actress (1906-1997)
- Fritz Spira, Austrian actor (1877–1943)

## Similar surnames

Spear, Spry, Spray, Spiro, Spier, Spera, Speir, Shaffer, Schaefer, Shafer, Shapiro, Schafer.

## 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.