Špire
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Špire is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: (i) from a nickname for a tall thin person, from Middle English spir ‘stalk’; (ii) ‘person from Speyer’, Germany.
- ISIceland1 in 351K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia≈1 in 509K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)(i) from a nickname for a tall thin person, from Middle English spir ‘stalk’; (ii) ‘person from Speyer’, Germany.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Špire counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 509K | — | Špire | 6 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | 406 | — | 3 |
| FR France | — | — | 28 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 12 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Špire mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) from a nickname for a tall thin person, from Middle English spir ‘stalk’; (ii) ‘person from Speyer’, Germany. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Špire a male or female name?
- Špire is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Špire have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8 people named Špire in Croatia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled špire.
- Where is Špire most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Špire is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 351 thousand people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Špire?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 1 people named Špire in 2026, about 1 in 351 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1pireThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Špire”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.