Spencer
A unisex name of Old English origin, meaning steward, dispenser of provisions.
How Spencer has moved
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| Year | US rank |
|---|---|
| 2015 | #252 |
| 2016 | #267 |
| 2017 | #292 |
| 2018 | #307 |
| 2019 | #321 |
| 2020 | #316 |
| 2021 | #315 |
| 2022 | #338 |
| 2023 | #362 |
| 2024 | #388 |
| 2025 | #360 |
Spencer by the numbers
In 2025, 298 babies in England and Wales were named Spencer. In the US, 1,466 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 4,619 babies in 1998, making it a 1990s name.
At its height, in 2000, about 1 in 520 American babies born that year was called Spencer.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Spencer. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Spenserdispenser of provisions; occupational surname14 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean a craft or trade
Like Spencer, each of these has a craft or trade in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Masonstone worker13,560 in the US (2017)
- Ameliawork, industriousness2,153 in England and Wales (2025)
- Graysonson of the steward8,767 in the US (2017)
- Penelopeweaver; wife of Odysseus1,174 in England and Wales (2025)
- Skylarscholar, learned one; a modern respelling of Schuyler4,984 in the US (2017)
- Chaseto hunt; one who hunts4,207 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Spencer
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