Speier
English
Etymology
Proper noun
Speier (plural Speiers)
- A surname from German.
- 2019 November 22, Lauren Gambino, “'Absolute fearlessness': women take impeachment spotlight and speak truth as Trump fumes”, in The Guardian[1], archived from the original on 1 January 2020:
- Hours into the final public hearing of the House’s historic impeachment inquiry on Thursday, the congresswoman Jackie Speier, a Democrat from California, asked the witness to verify a story she had heard about her. […] But Speier turned to Hill’s hardscrabble upbringing in County Durham, in the north-east of England.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Speier is the 37691st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 590 individuals. Speier is most common among White (96.44%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Speier”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.