Spector

4,323 people in the United States were counted with the surname Spector in the 2020 census, making it the 7,430th most common in the country. That is about one person in 69,100.

By the numbers

People: 4,323
Rank: 7,430th
How common: 1 in 69,100
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Yiddish

From Yiddish ספּעקטאָר, an occupational surname for a teacher's assistant in a Jewish school.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Spector

Phil Spector (1939–2021)American record producer
Jonathan Spector (born 1986)American soccer player
Ronnie Spector (1943–2022)American singer
Morgan Spector (born 1980)American actor
Warren Spector (born 1955)American game designer

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

Surnames like Spector

Try it on yourself

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.