Shiner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: One who shines; a luminary
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃaɪnəɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shiner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 171K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 2.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- 1 in 171K (inferred from the name graph)
1,949 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
One who shines; a luminary.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shiner 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 | 1,949 | 1 in 171K | 1.9K | Shiner | 29 |
| PL Poland | 16 | 1 in 2.4M | 11 | — | — |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Shiner | 8 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | — | Shiner | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 570 | Shiner | 8 |
| PA Panama | — | — | — | Shiner | 2 |
| GT Guatemala | — | — | — | Shiner | 1 |
| SV El Salvador | — | — | — | Shiner | 2 |
1,949 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Ronald Shinerb. 1903GBBritish comedian (1903-1966)
- Mervin Shinerb. 1921USAmerican country singer (1921–2023)
- Margot Shinerb. 1923DEGerman-British gastroenterologist (1923-1998)
- Roy Shinerb. 1924GBEnglish footballer (1924-1988)
- Esther Shinerb. 1924CACanadian politician (1924–1987)
- Larry Shinerb. 1934USAmerican philosopher
- Dick Shinerb. 1942USAmerican football player
- Lewis Shinerb. 1950USAmerican writer
- David Shinerb. 1953USAmerican clown
- Edith Shinerauthor
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 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,127 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,208 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,619 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 570 | #10,240 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 11 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 11 | #129,711 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #209,330 |
| 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 Shiner mean, and where does it come from?
- One who shines; a luminary. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Shiner?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃaɪnəɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Shiner have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Shiner, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shiner.
- Where is Shiner most common?
- Shiner is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 171 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Shiner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,949 people named Shiner in 2010, about 1 in 171 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shinerThe 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, “Shiner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.