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The surname Spotts

A surname, carried by 3,178 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S132

Spotts: #10,150 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Spotts #10,150, 3,178 people Spotts: #10,150 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Spotts #10,150, 3,178 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Spotts is more common than 93.7% of them.

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,178 people named Spotts in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 97,151 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,174.

#10,150
rank among US surnames
3,178
people in 2010
1.1
per 100,000 Americans
+0.1%
change since 2000 (was #9,407)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#10,145Esch3,17997,120
#10,150Bailes3,17897,151
#10,155Oshiro3,17797,181
#10,159Goldsberry3,17697,212

Who is named Spotts

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

90% of people named Spotts identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 90%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 6.0%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
  • Two or more races 1.5%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Spotts

Spotts has the Soundex code S132, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S132.

Questions

How common is the surname Spotts?
3,178 people in the United States had the surname Spotts in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 97,151 Americans. It ranked 10,150th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Spotts?
In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Spotts identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Spotts getting more or less common?
More common. 3,174 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,178 in 2010, up 0.1%.