Spain

At the 2020 census, 11,050 Americans bore the surname Spain — 3,191st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 27,000.

By the numbers

People: 11,050
Rank: 3,191st
How common: 1 in 27,000
Per 100,000: 3.7

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

From Middle English Spayne, from Anglo-Norman Espayne, from Latin Spania, from earlier Latin Hispānia. Displaced, which was borrowed directly from Latin.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Spain described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 70.3%
Black, not Hispanic 19.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Spain

Juan Carlos I of Spain (born 1938)King of Spain from 1975 to 2014
Felipe VI of Spain (born 1968)King of Spain since 2014
Alfonso XII of Spain (1857–1885)king of Spain from 1874 to 1885
Amadeo I of Spain (1845–1890)Italian Royal and temporary Head of State of Spain
Queen Letizia of Spain (born 1972)queen consort of Spain since 2014
Infanta Sofía of Spain (born 2007)younger child of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia
Carlota Joaquina of Spain (1775–1830)Queen of Portugal from 1816 to 1826
Infanta Cristina of Spain (born 1965)Spanish royal

People named Spain with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Spain

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.