Last Name SPENS

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Meaning Local: At the spence. The castodian of the store-room. A store-room, a store-closet, in small farms a cupboard.
The family are descended from William de Spens of Lathallan in Fifeshire, 1392, who married Isabel, daughter and heiress of Duncan Campbell of Glen Douglas, in commemoration of which the family quarter the Campbell arms of gyronny of eight or and sable.
Origin English, Scottish, Irish, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank 74,957 (2000 US census)
Count 240 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 95%, or 228 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • undisclosed % as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 2.08%, or 5 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • undisclosed % as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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