The SPECK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,282	5129	0.002	23
United States (1880 census)	1,671	3491	0.003	33
Change since 1880	+4611	-1638	-0.001	-10
Other Countries
Australia	187	8018	0.001	11
United Kingdom	734	6679	0.002	16

Top States for SPECK by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	619	3690	0.003	30
Ohio	531	2672	0.005	47
Pennsylvania	523	3000	0.004	43
California	469	6081	0.001	14
Tennessee	347	2401	0.006	61
Top States for SPECK by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	347	2401	0.006	61
South Dakota	46	2727	0.006	61
Nebraska	101	2243	0.006	59
Mississippi	145	2543	0.005	51
Montana	45	2944	0.005	50

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called SPECK live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SPECK represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SPECK in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SPECK by picking someone at random in Tennessee than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SPECK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SPECK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the SPECK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SPECK in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	97	1.54
Mixed Race	65	1.03
Native American/Alaskan	65	1.03
Asian/Pacific	40	0.64
Black/African American	40	0.64
White (Caucasian)	5,975	95.11

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SPECK surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to SPECK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SPECK.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.