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    The surname Spurlin

    A surname, carried by 3,195 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S164

    Spurlin: #10,088 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Spurlin #10,088, 3,195 people Spurlin: #10,088 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Spurlin #10,088, 3,195 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Spurlin is more common than 93.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,195 people named Spurlin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 96,634 Americans. That is up 8.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,949.

    #10,088
    rank among US surnames
    3,195
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.3%
    change since 2000 (was #10,078)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,079Gaudette3,19896,543
    #10,082Kiker3,19796,574
    #10,085Risinger3,19696,604
    #10,088Kahle3,19596,634
    #10,090Koziol3,19496,664
    #10,092Mines3,19396,694
    #10,095Perrault3,19096,785

    Who is named Spurlin

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

    87% of people named Spurlin identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 87%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Spurlin

    Spurlin has the Soundex code S164, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S164.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Spurlin?
    3,195 people in the United States had the surname Spurlin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,634 Americans. It ranked 10,088th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Spurlin?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Spurlin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Spurlin getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,949 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,195 in 2010, up 8.3%.