Spelling
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: present participle and gerund of spell
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/spɛlɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Spelling is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- DKDenmark
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
present participle and gerund of spell
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Spelling is read(measured from records)
Spelling is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English77%
present participle and gerund of spell
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German5.2%
Low German form related to Spilling.
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Spelling 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 Italian, spelling (specific spelling of a word)
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)
- Aaron Spellingb. 1923USAmerican film and television producer (1923-2006)
- Candy Spellingb. 1945USAmerican socialite, writer, and television personality
- Tori Spellingb. 1973USAmerican actress
- Randy Spellingb. 1978USAmerican actor
- Thomas Spellingb. 1993DKSwedish ice hockey 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 157 | #24,897 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 44 | #14,041 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 34 | #15,032 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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
- How do you pronounce Spelling?
- A machine transcription gives /spɛlɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Spelling mean, and where does it come from?
- present participle and gerund of spell Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Spelling?
- In the etymology graph, Speller is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Spelling have the most bearers?
- Spelling is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Spelling?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/spellingThe 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, “Spelling”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.