Spaeth
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Persönliches Merkmal: 'spät', spät Aufstehender
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Spaeth is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 97K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 13Kas Späth
- FRFrance≈1 in 148K
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 Spaeth 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 291 (measured from records)
- 1 in 97K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,200 named Späth, est.
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Spath in AT Austria, JM Jamaica, EG Egypt and Späth in DE Germany, FR France.
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)
Persönliches Merkmal: 'spät', spät Aufstehender.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Spaeth 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #728 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Späth | 102 |
| US United States | — | 3,412 | 1 in 97K | 3.4K | Spaeth | 291 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 372K | — | Spaeth | 1 |
| FR France | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 148K | 59 | Späth | 3 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 270K | — | Spath | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 191as Späth | 1 in 44K | 191 | Spaeth | 19 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Spath | 30 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Spath | 1 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)
- Joseph Späthb. 1823ITnot in their usual nameAustrian academic (1823-1896)
- Sigmund Spaethb. 1885USAmerican musicologist (1885–1965)
- Ernst Späthb. 1886ATnot in their usual nameAustrian chemist (1886–1946)
- Lothar Späthb. 1937DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician of the CDU (1937–2016)
- Ursula Späthb. 1937DEnot in their usual nameGerman journalist (1937–2022)
- Gerold Späthb. 1939CHnot in their usual nameSwiss poet and writer from Rapperswil on Zürichsee lakeshore
- Diana Palmerb. 1946USnot in their usual nameAmerican romance novelist
- Merrie Spaethb. 1948USAmerican political consultant
- Nicholas Spaethb. 1950USAmerican politician
- David Späthb. 2002DEnot in their usual nameGerman handball player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.4K | #9,527 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.4K | #8,956 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.3K | #9,396 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 84 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 82 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 68 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 59 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 57 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 52 | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Spaeth mean?
- Recorded meaning: Persönliches Merkmal: 'spät', spät Aufstehender.
- In which country does Spaeth have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.2 thousand people named Späth in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Spaeth most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Spaeth is densest in the United States — about 1 in 97 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Spaeth?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,412 people named Spaeth in 2010, about 1 in 97 thousand residents.
- How common is Spaeth compared with other names?
- In Germany, Spaeth is the 728th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Spaeth?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/spaethThe 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, “Spaeth” — the 728th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.