Last Name SPENCE

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Meaning	Local: At the spence. The castodian of the store-room. A store-room, a store-closet, in small farms a cupboard. The family are descended from William de Spens of Lathallan in Fifeshire, 1392, who married Isabel, daughter and heiress of Duncan Campbell of Glen Douglas, in commemoration of which the family quarter the Campbell arms of gyronny of eight or and sable. An abbreviation of Spencer.

Origin	English, Scottish, Jewish, Irish, South african

Rank	928 (2000 US census)	808 (1990 US census)

Count	34,435 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

75.73%, or 26078 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
19.67%, or 6773 total occurrences, as black,
0.46%, or 158 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.58%, or 200 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.74%, or 599 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.81%, or 623 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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