Spillane

2,898 people in the United States were counted with the surname Spillane in the 2020 census, making it the 10,559th most common in the country. That is about one person in 103,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,898
Rank: 10,559th
How common: 1 in 103,000
Per 100,000: 0.97

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Spealáin (“descendant of Spealán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive of speal (“scythe”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Spillane

Mickey Spillane (1918–2006)American crime novelist
Joan Spillane (born 1943)American swimmer
Davy Spillane (born 1959)Irish musician

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

Surnames like Spillane

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.