Spight Surname
Approximately 1,082 people bear this surname
Spight Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 994 | 1:364,647 | 32,446 |
| England | 66 | 1:844,213 | 44,691 |
| Australia | 14 | 1:1,928,264 | 88,951 |
| Wales | 6 | 1:515,755 | 23,171 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 95 | 1:256,583 | 18,459 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 161 | 1:311,917 | 24,534 |
Spight Demographics
Spight Political Affiliation
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Spight Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Spight Come From? nationality or country of origin
Spight is found most frequently in The United States. It may also occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Spight? popularity and diffusion
Spight is the 339,783rd most commonly used surname worldwide, held by around 1 in 6,735,255 people. This last name is primarily found in The Americas, where 92 percent of Spight live; 92 percent live in North America and 92 percent live in Anglo-North America.
Spight is most commonly held in The United States, where it is carried by 994 people, or 1 in 364,647. In The United States it is most prevalent in: Mississippi, where 16 percent are found, Missouri, where 14 percent are found and Tennessee, where 13 percent are found. Barring The United States this last name exists in 5 countries. It is also common in England, where 6 percent are found and Australia, where 1 percent are found.
Spight Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Spight has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Spight last name expanded 617 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it declined 31 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Spight Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Spight surname are 0.76000000000001% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 53.99% being registered to vote for the political party.
Spight earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 15.6% less than the national average, earning $36,419 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speight | 92 | 12,984 | / |
| Spaight | 92 | 450 | / |
| Spights | 92 | 26 | / |
| Spieght | 92 | 5 | / |
| Spuight | 92 | 0 | / |
| Spighte | 92 | 0 | / |
| Speights | 86 | 3,972 | / |
| Spaights | 86 | 73 | / |
| Speighth | 86 | 1 | / |
| Speighte | 86 | 1 | / |
| Speght | 83 | 4 | / |
| Spught | 83 | 0 | / |
| Spighh | 83 | 0 | / |
| Speightss | 80 | 1 | / |
| Speighs | 77 | 2 | / |
| Spighch | 77 | 1 | / |
| Speighd | 77 | 1 | / |
| Speghts | 77 | 1 | / |
| Speaght | 77 | 0 | / |
| Speiget | 77 | 0 | / |
| Spaige | 67 | 0 | / |
| Spix | 60 | 656 | / |
| Spikx | 55 | 0 | / |
| Spegd | 55 | 0 | / |
| Speage | 50 | 2 | / |
| Speege | 50 | 1 | / |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Spight
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis