Spears

At the 2020 census, 40,009 Americans bore the surname Spears — 845th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,471.

By the numbers

People: 40,009
Rank: 845th
How common: 1 in 7,471
Per 100,000: 13.4

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

. Patronymic of Spear.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 63.3%
Black, not Hispanic 26.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Spears

Britney Spears (born 1981)American singer, songwriter, actress and model
Jamie Lynn Spears (born 1991)American actress and singer
Abigail Spears (born 1981)American tennis player
Aries Spears (born 1975)American comedian
Shawn Spears (born 1981)Canadian professional wrestler
Randy Spears (born 1961)American pornographic actor
Eddie Spears (born 1982)American actor
Zak Spears (born 1965)American pornographic actor in gay films, formerly mainstream film actor

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

Surnames like Spears

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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.