How common is the surname Spradley?

3,434 people in the United States had the surname Spradley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 89,908 Americans. It ranked 9,471st of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Spradley getting more or less common?

More common. 3,354 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,434 in 2010, up 2.4%.

The surname Spradley

A surname, carried by 3,434 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S163

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Spradley is more common than 94.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,434 people named Spradley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 89,908 Americans. That is up 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,354.

#9,471

rank among US surnames

3,434

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+2.4%

change since 2000 (was #8,966)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,464	Cavallo	3,438	89,804
#9,466	Poulson	3,437	89,830
#9,471	Spradley	3,434	89,908
#9,473	Scalf	3,433	89,935
#9,479	Umanzor	3,432	89,961

Who is named Spradley

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

72% of people named Spradley identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 72%
Black (not Hispanic) 23%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 2.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Spradley

Spradley has the Soundex code S163, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S163.

Questions

How common is the surname Spradley?: 3,434 people in the United States had the surname Spradley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 89,908 Americans. It ranked 9,471st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Spradley?: In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Spradley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Spradley getting more or less common?: More common. 3,354 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,434 in 2010, up 2.4%.