The SPEED surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,082	4589	0.003	26
United States (1880 census)	1,632	3561	0.003	33
Change since 1880	+5450	-1028	0	-7
Other Countries
Australia	552	2929	0.003	34
United Kingdom	3,258	1919	0.007	71

Top States for SPEED by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	946	2581	0.005	45
Mississippi	557	851	0.020	196
Florida	479	4505	0.003	30
California	458	6448	0.001	14
Louisiana	365	1826	0.008	82
Top States for SPEED by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	557	851	0.020	196
Maine	189	1395	0.015	148
Louisiana	365	1826	0.008	82
Alabama	256	2635	0.006	58
Arkansas	140	2646	0.005	52

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

Classification and Origin of SPEED

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 SPEED 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 SPEED 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 SPEED in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	118	1.67
White (Hispanic)	112	1.58
Asian/Pacific	47	0.66
Native American/Alaskan	27	0.38
White (Caucasian)	4,321	61.01
Black/African American	2,457	34.69

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

Similar names to SPEED

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SPEED.

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.