Explore the Family Name Spilker

The meaning of Spilker

North German: occupational name for a maker of spindles, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German spille ‘spindle’.

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How common is the last name Spilker in the United States?

Based on the Decennial U.S. Census data, the surname Spilker saw a dip in popularity between 2000 and 2010. In 2000, it ranked 22,164th, but by 2010, it had fallen to 26,598th, a drop of roughly 20 percent. The actual count of people with this surname also decreased from 1,088 in 2000 to 916 in 2010, representing a decrease of nearly 16 percent. Accordingly, the proportion of people with the Spilker surname per 100,000 also declined by approximately 22.5 percent.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#22,164	#26,598	-20.01%
Count	1,088	916	-15.81%
Proportion per 100k	0.4	0.31	-22.5%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Spilker

The Decennial U.S. Census data provides an interesting insight into the ethnic identity associated with the surname Spilker. In 2000, an overwhelming 97.70 percent of individuals with the Spilker surname identified as White, but that figure dropped slightly to 95.41 percent in 2010. Interestingly, there was an increase in the percentage of Spilkers who identified as Hispanic, rising from 1.10 percent in 2000 to 2.18 percent in 2010. Additionally, those identifying as belonging to two or more races increased from 0.64 percent to 1.53 percent. Though the numbers are small, there was an introduction of Asian/Pacific Islander identification within the Spilker surname group in 2010, not previously recorded in 2000. There were no individuals who identified as Black or American Indian and Alaskan Native in either year.

	2000	2010	Change
White	97.7%	95.41%	-2.34%
Hispanic	1.1%	2.18%	98.18%
Two or More Races	0.64%	1.53%	139.06%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0.66%	0%
Black	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0%	0%	0%