Shiller
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a medieval German nickname for someone with a squint; also a different form of Schuler
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈʃɪɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shiller is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 36Kas Schiller(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 112Kas Шиллер
- CACanada≈1 in 416K
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 Shiller 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
- 224 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 416K (inferred from the name graph)
9,132 named Schiller, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Schiller in CZ Czechia, PL Poland, SK Slovakia and Шиллер in RU Russia.
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)
from a medieval German nickname for someone with a squint; also a different form of Schuler.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shiller 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 | — | 9,132as Schiller | 1 in 36K | 9.1K | Shiller | 224 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Шиллер | 116 |
| BR Brazil | — | 669as Schiller | 1 in 316K | 669 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 504as Schiller | 1 in 76K | 281 | Schiller | 38 |
| SE Sweden | — | 396as Schiller | 1 in 26K | 396 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 350as Schiller | 1 in 31K | 350 | Schiller | 28 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 304as Schiller | 1 in 28K | 304 | Shiller | 4 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 138as Schiller | 1 in 39K | 138 | Schiller | 18 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 416K | — | Shiller | 46 |
| GD Grenada | #535 | — | — | — | Shiller | 1 |
9,132 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling schiller. 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Shiller is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, One who shills: Synonym of shill.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ivan Shillerb. 1895botanist
- Robert J. Shillerb. 1946USAmerican economist
- Douglas Shillerprofessor and researcher in speech-language pathology
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 545 | #42,786 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 517 | #39,946 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 428 | #49,177 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 52 | #102,017 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #385,456 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Shiller mean, and where does it come from?
- from a medieval German nickname for someone with a squint; also a different form of Schuler. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Shiller?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃɪɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Shiller have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.1 thousand people named Schiller, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shiller?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,132 people named Schiller in 2010, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Shiller compared with other names?
- In Grenada, Shiller is the 535th most common surname of 3,427 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shillerThe 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, “Shiller” — the 535th most common surname in Grenada. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.