Spires

See also: spires, and 'spires

English

Etymology

Patronymic from Spire.

Proper noun

Spires (plural Spireses)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Spires is the 4672^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 7592 individuals. Spires is most common among White (83.98%) and Black/African American (11.53%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Spires”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• spiers, resips, pisser, prises, Speirs, Persis, Spiers, persis