Shapir
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃəpɪə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shapir is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 3.8Kas שפיר(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 198Kas Spier
- LVLatvia≈1 in 23Kas שפיר
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shapir itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,400 named Shafir, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Israel, as שפיר
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shafir in US United States, NL Netherlands, IN India and 1 more, שפיר in IL Israel, RO Romania, LV Latvia and Шафир in UZ Uzbekistan.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shapir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Shafir | 4 |
| IL Israel | #408 | 2,276as שפיר | 1 in 3.8K | 2.3K | שפיר | 68 |
| US United States | — | 1,679as Spier | 1 in 198K | 1.7K | Shafir | 162 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,212as Spier | 1 in 175K | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| IN India | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | 3 | Shafir | 12 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | שפיר | 3 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Шафир | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 587as Spier | 1 in 29K | 587 | Shafir | 6 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | שפיר | 3 |
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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
- Olga Shapirb. 1850RURussian writer
- Mo Shapirb. 1917AUAustralian rules footballer (1917-1942)
- Rachel Shapirb. 1928ILIsraeli children's writer
- Maksim Shapirb. 1962RURussian scientist
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)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Shapir?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃəpɪə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Shapir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.4 thousand people named Shafir in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Shapir most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Shapir itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Israel's: the national register counts about 1 in 3.8 thousand people named שפיר.
- How common is the name Shapir?
- In Israel, the national register counted 2,276 people named שפיר in 2017, about 1 in 3.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Shapir compared with other names?
- In Israel, Shapir is the 408th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shapir?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shapirThe 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, “Shapir” — the 408th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.