How rare is the last name Spear?

12,422 people in the United States have the last name Spear, about 1 in 24,062. It ranks #2,821 of 156,621 last names in the 2020 Census.

last name

SPEAR

#2,821

of 156,621 last names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
12,422
About
1 in 24,062
This common or more
51.8%
Who bears it

Of the 12,422 people with the last name Spear, 84.1% reported their origin as White, 7.4% as Black and 3.5% as two or more races. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Either side of Spear

#2,819 Pringle · 12,432#2,820 Devlin · 12,430#2,822 Bouchard · 12,419#2,823 Santillan · 12,416

Spelled almost the same

8 last names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Spear, most common first.

#3,138 Speer · 11,201#19,252 Speir · 1,409#32,900 Spehar · 747#44,135 Sphar · 525#61,001 Spaar · 356#61,594 Spar · 352#66,338 Sperr · 322#69,752 Speare · 303

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