Shiffman
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈʃɪfmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shiffman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant spelling of Schiffmann.
- ILIsrael1 in 10Kas שיפמן(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.3M
- USUnited States1 in 21Kas Shipman
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 Shiffman 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)
15,581 named Shipman, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled שיפמן in IL Israel, RO Romania, UZ Uzbekistan and Shifman 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)
Variant spelling of Schiffmann.
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shiffman 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 | 15,581as Shipman | 1 in 21K | 16K | Shifman | 53 |
| IL Israel | 852as שיפמן | 1 in 10K | 852 | שיפמן | 32 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | שיפמן | 2 |
| RO Romania | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | שיפמן | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 225as Schiffmann | 1 in 37K | 225 | — | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | 4 | 1 in 1.3M | 4 | — | 1 |
15,581 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling shipman. 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
- Max Shiffmanb. 1914USAmerican mathematician
- Ronald Shiffmanb. 1937American architect
- Gary Shiffmanb. 1965USAmerican economist and entrepreneur
- Daniel Shiffmanb. 1973USAmerican computer programmer
- Nate Shiffmanb. 1991USAmerican professional soccer player
- Norman ShiffmanCACanadian dermatologist
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 564 | #39,052 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 555 | #37,688 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 550 | #42,463 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 4 | #10,080 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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
- What does the name Shiffman mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant spelling of Schiffmann. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Shiffman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃɪfmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Shiffman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Shipman, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Shiffman most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shiffman is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 1.3 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shiffman?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 4 people named Shiffman, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Shiffman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shiffmanThe 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, “Shiffman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.