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    The surname Spires

    A patronymic surname, carried by 7,592 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S162

    Spires: #4,672 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Spires #4,672, 7,592 people Spires: #4,672 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Spires #4,672, 7,592 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Spires is more common than 97.1% of them.

    Origin

    Patronymic from Spire.

    Spires is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 7,592 people named Spires in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 40,667 Americans. That is up 5.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,172.

    #4,672
    rank among US surnames
    7,592
    people in 2010
    2.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.9%
    change since 2000 (was #4,541)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,667Folsom7,59840,635
    #4,669Sena7,59740,640
    #4,671Sessions7,59340,662
    #4,672Spires7,59240,667

    Who is named Spires

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

    84% of people named Spires identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 84%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 12%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Spires

    Spires has the Soundex code S162, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S162.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Spires come from?
    Patronymic from Spire.
    How common is the surname Spires?
    7,592 people in the United States had the surname Spires in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 40,667 Americans. It ranked 4,672nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Spires?
    In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Spires identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Spires?
    Spires is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
    Is the surname Spires getting more or less common?
    More common. 7,172 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,592 in 2010, up 5.9%.