Spencer is derived from an English surname that means ‘dispenser of provisions’, derived from Middle English ‘spense’ for ‘larder, pantry’.
Spencer is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Spencer isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Spencer ranks 273. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 7 were named Spencer. In the entire USA, approximately 119,034 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Spencer. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
Spencer is derived from an English surname that means ‘dispenser of provisions’, derived from Middle English ‘spense’ for ‘larder, pantry’.
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Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Spencer is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Spencer for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Spencer is therefore one of only 442 boys’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Spencer is a very special name, which reached its peak of popularity only in the last quarter of the 20th century, ranking in the top 100 boys' names in our SmartGenius statistics: With position 81 Spencer has never been more popular than back in 1998.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Spencer was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 1,215 babies were named Spencer in the USA in 2022, ranking it #270 on the list of the most popular boys' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 1930, when it was only ranked at #440 of all male names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 153 boys were named Spencer.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Spencer is one of them. However, Spencer is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Utah seem to particularly fancy this name – the 5,403 men called Spencer who live here are 0,397% of all male residents and push their name up to #53 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Utah. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 119,034 people with the name Spencer. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Spencer on position 257 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With seven letters, the name Spencer has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.
If your name is Spencer and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Spencer, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Spencer sounds like this:
