Spearman

At the 2020 census, 7,437 Americans bore the surname Spearman — 4,626th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 40,200.

By the numbers

People: 7,437
Rank: 4,626th
How common: 1 in 40,200
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

From an occupational surname for a soldier armed with a spear.

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 51.7%
White, not Hispanic 39.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.7%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Spearman

Charles Spearman (1863–1945)English psychologist

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

Surnames like Spearman

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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.