# Spong (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/spong/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Swedish |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 636 |
| US rank (2010) | 35,395 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 485,449 people |
| Change since 2000 | -2.8% (654 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Various origins: * English topographic surname from Middle English spong (“narrow strip of land”). * Borrowed from Swedish Spong, an ornamental surname from spång (“footbridge, plank”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Spong 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) | 96% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |
| Two or more races | 1.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Spong in the United States.

## People named Spong

- John Shelby Spong, American bishop (1931–2021)
- William Spong Jr., American politician (1920–1997)

## Similar surnames

Spang, Sponseller, Sponaugle, Sponsler, Spencer, Spence, Spangler, Spinks, Sappington, Spink, Spengler, Sapienza.

## 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.