Last Name SPEED

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Meaning Probably a font-name, wishing prosperity and good-speed to the child. The original meaning of speed is 'success.' If not this, it must be a nickname, significant of the quick, hastly movements of the first ancestor. If baptismal, Speedy is but a pet-form, as in the case of Charlie, Tommy, Willy, etc.
Origin English, Jewish, Irish, Belgian

Rank 4,589 (2000 US census) 4,015 (1990 US census)
Count 7,082 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 61.01%, or 4321 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 34.69%, or 2457 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.66%, or 47 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.38%, or 27 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.67%, or 118 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.58%, or 112 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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