Spencer
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About Spencer
Spencer is a name that has everything: it's both distinguished sounding and accessible, dignified but Spencer Tracy-like friendly. Picked by several celebrities (a couple of times even for a girl), adding up to an enthusiastically recommended choice.
Spencer for boys#360 US
As a family surname, Spencer became the middle name of Winston Churchill, and was the maiden name of Princess Diana. The surname version was often spelled Spenser in the past, as in Edmund Spenser, the poet known for The Faerie Queene.
The protagonist of Henry James's short story The Jolly Corner" is Spencer Brydon.
Spencer for girls#1025 US
Yes, Spencer makes a plausible and powerful female choice these days, though it's still used four times as often for boys as for girls. But Spencer does not swim that far beneath the Top 1000, used for nearly 250 baby girls last year.
Kelsey Grammer used it for his daughter in the 1980's. Spencer made its first and so far only appearance on the girls' Top 1000 in 2017.
Pronounced SPEN-ser.
As of October 2026, Spencer ranked #360 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #84 in 1998, Nameberry popularity #118.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #248 | 1,520 | #1,204 | 203 |
| 2015 | #252 | 1,433 | #1,091 | 239 |
| 2016 | #267 | 1,371 | #1,067 | 245 |
| 2017 | #292 | 1,210 | #981 | 267 |
| 2018 | #307 | 1,114 | #1,043 | 247 |
| 2019 | #321 | 1,038 | #1,058 | 242 |
| 2020 | #317 | 1,046 | #1,052 | 238 |
| 2021 | #315 | 1,049 | #1,049 | 241 |
| 2022 | #338 | 988 | #1,087 | 230 |
| 2023 | #362 | 902 | #1,035 | 245 |
| 2024 | #388 | 840 | #1,119 | 216 |
| 2025 | #360 | 908 | #1,025 | 245 |
World rankings
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Famous Spencers
- Spencer Bonaventure TracyBoy
American actor
- Spencer PercevalBoy
British prime minister
- (Edward) Spencer AbrahamBoy
10th U.S. Secretary of Energy; Senator from Michigan
- Spencer BreslinBoy
American actor; brother of Abigail Breslin
- Spencer Mason HawesBoy
American basketball player
- Spencer HaywoodBoy
American basketball player
- Spencer PaysingerBoy
American football player
- Charles Spencer ChaplinBoy
American actor and director
- Spencer SmithBoy
American drummer of band Panic! at the Disco
- Spencer William PrattBoy
American reality TV personality ("The Hills")
- Spencer GoodingBoy
son of actor Cuba Gooding Jr
- Spencer Shuga KnightBoy
brother of actor Sterling Knight
- Spencer ListBoy
American actor
- Spencer HawkBoy
son of American pro skater Tony Hawk
- Herbert Spencer GasserBoy
American physiologist; winner of the Nobel Prize
- Spencer TweedyBoy
son of musician Jeff Tweedy of Wilco; drummer of band Tweedy
- Spencer Frederick TrumpBoy
grandson of President Donald Trump
- Charles Edward Maurice SpencerBoy
9th Earl Spencer
- Spencer AckermanBoy
American national security reporter and blogger
- Spencer CharnasBoy
American Metal vocalist of Ice Nine Kills
- Spencer Kaling (b. 2020)Boy
son of actress Mindy Kaling
- spencer agnewBoy
director of programming for smosh games
- Spencer KaydenGirl
American actress
- Spencer GrammerGirl
American actress; daughter of actor Kelsey Grammer
- Spencer O'BrienGirl
Canadian Olympic athlete
- Spencer Margaret RichmondGirl
daughter of American actress Jaclyn Smith
- Ashley Spencer ArgotaGirl
American actress
- Lady Diana SpencerGirl
Princess of Wales
- Spencer BarbosaGirl
Influencer
Spencer in pop culture
- Dr. Spencer ReidBoy
FBI profiler on TV's "Criminal Minds"
- Spencer ShayBoy
brother of Carly on TV's "iCarly" played by Jeremy Trainor
- Spencer OlchinBoy
character on TV's "King of Queens"
- Spencer'sBoy
chain of party gift shops
- Shawn SpencerBoy
main character on "Psych"
- Eliot SpencerBoy
character on TV's "Leverage"
- Spencer WalshBoy
character on "Good Luck Charlie"
- Spencer MonroeBoy
character on "The Walking Dead"
- Spencer MoonBoy
character on British soap "EastEnders"
- Spencer MatthewsBoy
UK reality TV personality "Made in Chelsea"
- Spencer CogswellBoy
character on "The Jetsons" Manager of Cogswell Cogs
- Spencer DuttonBoy
Character in "Yellowstone" spin off series "1923"
- Spencer HastingsGirl
a main character from "Pretty Little Liars"
- Spencer CarlinGirl
character from "South of Nowhere"