Shapira
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Shapira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country, where it is the 39th most common surname.
- PLPoland1 in 219K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 5M
- ILIsrael1 in 720as שפירא
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 Shapira itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- 1 in 219K (inferred from the name graph)
12,049 named שפירא, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled שפירא in IL Israel, PL Poland, DE Germany and Spira in US United States, CH Switzerland, SE Sweden.
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 across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Shapira is found
(measured from records)Shapira 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #39 | 12,049as שפירא | 1 in 720 | 12K | שפירא | 106 |
| US United States | — | 1,034as Spira | 1 in 322K | 1.4K | Spira | 214 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | שפירא | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 175 | 1 in 219K | 102 | שפירא | 4 |
| FR France | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 538K | 11 | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 57as Spira | 1 in 147K | 57 | Spira | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 42as Spira | 1 in 243K | 42 | Spira | 10 |
12,049 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)- Chaim-Moshe Shapirab. 1902ILIsraeli politician (1902–1970)
- Anita Shapirab. 1940ILIsraeli historian
- Haim Shapirab. 1962ILIsraeli science writer and mathematician
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Shapira?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named שפירא, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Germany, Poland and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Shapira most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shapira is densest in Poland — about 1 in 219 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shapira?
- In Poland, the national register counted 175 people named Shapira in 2026, about 1 in 219 thousand residents.
- How common is Shapira compared with other names?
- In Israel, Shapira is the 39th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shapira?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shapiraThe 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, “Shapira” — the 39th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.