Spies

Spies is the 9,344th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,343 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 89,400.

By the numbers

People: 3,343
Rank: 9,344th
How common: 1 in 89,400
Per 100,000: 1.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Notable people called Spies

Ben Spies (born 1984)American motorcycle racer
August Vincent Theodore Spies (1855–1887)American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper editor

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

Surnames like Spies

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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.