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The surname Springer

A surname, carried by 31,643 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S165

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Springer is more common than 99.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 31,643 people named Springer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 9,757 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 31,044.

#1,107
rank among US surnames
31,643
people in 2010
11
per 100,000 Americans
+1.9%
change since 2000 (was #1,031)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#1,098McFadden31,8399,697
#1,099Blanco31,8009,709
#1,100Gorman31,7889,713
#1,101Katz31,7809,715
#1,102Kuhn31,7769,716
#1,103Noel31,7689,719
#1,104Valle31,7169,735

Who is named Springer

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

83% of people named Springer identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 83%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
  • Two or more races 2.0%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Springer

Springer has the Soundex code S165, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S165.

Questions

How common is the surname Springer?
31,643 people in the United States had the surname Springer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 9,757 Americans. It ranked 1,107th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Springer?
In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Springer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Springer getting more or less common?
More common. 31,044 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 31,643 in 2010, up 1.9%.