The Spies Last Name

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Spies family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them.

How common is Spies?

Here is what public records tell us about the Spies last name. Spies ranked 9,279 in the 2010 US Census, with 3,508 people answering to the name. That puts it inside the top 10,000 US surnames. 533 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Spies name at birth. Births ran at 31 in 1891–1900 and 38 in 1991–2000.

The meaning of Spies is not given in the reference works we use for these short pages; a full report traces it from your own family's records.

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