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Spikes Surname

91,385th Most Commonsurname in the World

Approximately 5,239 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in: United StatesHighest density in: United States

Spikes Surname Definition:

(English) One who made and sold spikes or nails.

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Spikes Surname Distribution Map

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Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
United States	5,123	1:70,751	8,206
England	70	1:795,972	43,050
Canada	10	1:3,684,559	191,443
Chile	6	1:2,936,079	35,997
Wales	6	1:515,755	23,171
India	5	1:153,413,076	951,030
Germany	2	1:40,252,730	481,636
Kenya	2	1:23,089,950	83,168
Netherlands	2	1:8,443,588	136,641
Lebanon	1	1:5,637,083	32,436
Switzerland	1	1:8,212,915	156,297
Spain	1	1:46,752,036	156,870
South Africa	1	1:54,177,704	343,732
Saudi Arabia	1	1:30,855,817	63,028
Nigeria	1	1:177,142,758	748,972
Mexico	1	1:124,126,205	103,776
Australia	1	1:26,995,701	270,794
Indonesia	1	1:132,249,194	811,426
Iceland	1	1:380,090	11,096
Hong Kong	1	1:7,335,483	16,643
Ghana	1	1:27,020,692	23,742
Brazil	1	1:214,074,332	1,693,628

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Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
England	15	1:1,625,025	53,310

Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
United States	643	1:78,101	8,273

Spikes (33) may also be a first name.

Spikes Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

(English) One who made and sold spikes or nails.

— Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

User-submitted Reference

The Spickes name is relatively new (only existing since the late 19th century) and is one that stems from a name change by EliasSutton-Spickes of Mississippi, who, for undetermined reasons, dropped the "Sutton" from the family name and went with Spickes (also spelled as Spikes at certain periods).

The Spickes family (then Sutton) are descended from the Suttons of Dudley in the Midlands of England. In the 17th century, the Suttons (Spickes) came to Colonial America from Tenterden, Kent as a servant of the Tilden family. Not long after settling in Scituate, in the Plymouth Colony, George Sutton married into the Tilden family and converted to the Quaker faith. Fearing persecution, the family eventually moved from Massachusetts at the end of the 17th century to New Jersey and North Carolina (around Guilford County)

The family was predominantly Quaker until the end of the 18th century and by the early 19th century, the family moved from North Carolina to Georgia, then Alabama and finally Mississippi, where Elias Sutton-Spikes, a carpenter, fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side. At the war's end, Elias Sutton-Spikes went back to carpentry and before the family moved to Arkansas, Elias dropped the Sutton from his last name, although Sutton was used later as a middle name for some family members.

Today, the vast majority of the Spickes live in Arkansas, though there are some that live in Maryland, Delaware, Texas and California.

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Spikes Demographics

Average Spikes Salary inUnited States

$34,185 USD

Per year

Rank: 909,886 of 1,180,305Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:0.0012009Rank: 9,370 of 1,181,369Percentage of national average salary:79.22%Sample size: 2,996 (2014)

Average Salary inUnited States

$43,149 USD

Per year

Per month: $3,596 USDPer week: $799 USDPer day: $118 USD

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Spikes Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Spikes Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Spikes is found in The United States more than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Spikes? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 91,385th most frequently used family name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 1,391,018 people. The surname Spikes occurs mostly in The Americas, where 93 percent of Spikes live; 93 percent live in North America and 93 percent live in Anglo-North America. Spikes is also the 1,807,719th most commonly used given name globally It is held by 33 people.

The surname is most frequently occurring in The United States, where it is carried by 5,123 people, or 1 in 70,751. In The United States Spikes is most frequent in: Texas, where 23 percent reside, Georgia, where 13 percent reside and Louisiana, where 10 percent reside. Beside The United States it occurs in 21 countries. It is also common in England, where 1 percent reside and Canada, where 0 percent reside.

Spikes Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Spikes has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Spikes last name rose 797 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it rose 467 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Spikes Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Spikes surname are 11.96% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 58.73% registered with the party.

Spikes earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 20.77% less than the national average, earning $34,185 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Sort resultsIncidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A

Surname	Similarity	Worldwide Incidence	Prevalency
Spickes	92	57	/
Speikes	92	45	/
Spiekes	92	2	/
Spaikes	92	0	/
Spykes	83	68	/
Spikis	83	8	/
Spekes	83	7	/
Spukes	83	5	/
Spices	83	4	/
Spicketts	80	28	/
Speakes	77	740	/
Spuckes	77	14	/
Spikech	77	8	/
Speckes	77	1	/
Spiskis	77	1	/
Spiches	77	0	/
Spaiches	71	13	/
Speiches	71	1	/
Chpikesh	71	1	/
Speykees	71	0	/
Spekis	67	42	/
Specis	67	5	/
Spikyz	67	1	/
Speķis	67	1	/
Speicis	62	3	/
Shpikich	57	1	/
Speaches	57	0	/
Speichez	57	0	/

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