The surname Spiva
A surname, carried by 1,758 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S110
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,758 people named Spiva in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 175,623 Americans. That is up 28% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,374.
#16,376
rank among US surnames
1,758
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+27.9%
change since 2000 (was #18,526)
Who is named Spiva
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
61% of people named Spiva identified as white (not Hispanic), 27% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 8.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 61%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 27%
- Black (not Hispanic) 8.9%
- Two or more races 2.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Spiva
Spiva has the Soundex code S110, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S110.
Questions
- How common is the surname Spiva?
- 1,758 people in the United States had the surname Spiva in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 175,623 Americans. It ranked 16,376th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Spiva?
- In the 2010 Census, 61% of people named Spiva identified as white (not Hispanic), and 27% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Spiva getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,374 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,758 in 2010, up 28%.