Spivey

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from a Middle English personal name, Spivey; first attested William filius Spiui c1100 RegAntiquiss

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈspɪvi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Spivey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • IEIreland≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 16K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 23K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈30,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
424 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Ireland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SpiveyLatin(measured from records)
스피비Hangul(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from a Middle English personal name, Spivey; first attested William filius Spiui c1100 RegAntiquiss

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Where in the world(measured from records)

Spivey counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Spivey is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan—≈30,000 est.≈1 in 7.7K—Spivey1
US United States—21,1611 in 16K21KSpivey424
GH Ghana#498≈4,500 est.≈1 in 6.6K—Spivey8
GB United Kingdom—≈2,900 est.≈1 in 23K1.1KSpivey110
IT Italy—≈2,400 est.≈1 in 26K—Spivey8
IE Ireland#342≈1,600 est.≈1 in 3.3K—Spivey7
SG Singapore#665≈710 est.≈1 in 8.7K—Spivey3
JM Jamaica#330≈280 est.≈1 in 10K—Spivey1
IS Iceland—≈47 est.≈1 in 7.5K—Spivey5

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Spivey is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, United Kingdom, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Спайві, Спайви

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Spivey is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A surname from Middle English.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Victoria Spivey, b. 1906Bill Spivey, b. 1929Dan Spivey, b. 1952Nigel Spivey, b. 1958Angela Spivey, b. 1959Ron Spivey, b. 1961Billy Spivey, b. 1969Junior Spivey, b. 1975Taylor Spivey, b. 1991Jaquel Spivey, b. 1998

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Spivey,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Spivey
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201021K#1,702
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200020K#1,615
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202020K#1,727
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)20021.1K#6,243
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Spivey mean, and where does it come from?
from a Middle English personal name, Spivey; first attested William filius Spiui c1100 RegAntiquiss Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
How do you pronounce Spivey?
A machine transcription gives /ˈspɪvi/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Spivey have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Spivey in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled spivey.
How common is the name Spivey?
In the United States, the national register counted 21,161 people named Spivey in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
How common is Spivey compared with other names?
In Jamaica, Spivey is the 330th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Spivey” — the 330th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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