Špindler
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/ʃpɪndlɛr/(machine-generated) Czech · model-generated
Špindler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: cupational name for a maker or user of spindles, from an agent deriv. of ME spindle, Ger. Spindel, Yid.
- SISlovenia1 in 7.5K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 56K
- CZCzechia1 in 79K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.5K (inferred from the name graph)
3,648 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Spindler in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)cupational name for a maker or user of spindles, from an agent deriv. of ME spindle, Ger. Spindel, Yid. shpindl (OE spinel, MHG spinnele, OHG spin(n)ila, all derived from a Gmc verb meaning ‘to spin’). Splaine see Spillane Spock see Spaak
Cited for this meaning 4
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Špindler 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,648 | 1 in 91K | 3.6K | Spindler | 15 |
| BR Brazil | 716 | 1 in 296K | 716 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 279 | 1 in 7.5K | 279 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 151 | 1 in 56K | 151 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 135 | 1 in 79K | 135 | Špindler | 11 |
| DK Denmark | 62 | 1 in 95K | 62 | — | — |
3,648 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Josef Špindlerb. 1810CZCzech choirmaster and music teacher (1810-1874)
- Matěj Špindlerb. 1907Czechoslovak politician
- Jože Špindlerb. 1937SISlovenian economist
- Jožef Špindlerb. 1943SISlovene politician
- Tomi ŠpindlerSIresearcher
- Zdenka ŠpindlerSIresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 279 | #1,415 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 135 | #12,661 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Špindler mean, and where does it come from?
- cupational name for a maker or user of spindles, from an agent deriv. of ME spindle, Ger. Spindel, Yid. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Špindler?
- It depends on the language: in Czech /ʃpɪndlɛr/; in Slovenian /ʃpíːndlər/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Špindler have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Špindler, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled spindler.
- Where is Špindler most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Špindler is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 7.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Špindler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,648 people named Špindler in 2010, about 1 in 91 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%A1pindlerThe 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, “Špindler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.