Spiegl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: indirekter Berufsname zu mhd
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃpiːɡl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Spiegl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 99K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.3M
- ATAustria≈1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈810 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
indirekter Berufsname zu mhd. spiegel 'Spiegel aus Glas oder Metall; Brille'; für Spiegelmacher/Brillenhersteller, auch Übername 'Vorbild' oder Wohnstätten-/Herkunftsname.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Where in the world(measured from records)
Spiegl 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 | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Spiegl | 83 |
| AT Austria | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Spiegl | 54 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 698K | — | Spiegl | 1 |
| US United States | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | 100 | Spiegl | 82 |
| CZ Czechia | 34 | 1 in 315K | 34 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 28 | 1 in 300K | 28 | Spiegl | 7 |
| HR Croatia | 10 | 1 in 423K | 10 | — | — |
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 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Spiegl 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 German, 1233/1140/459/354/185 Tokens im Cluster; im Blatt nur als Typ genannt, etymologische Erläuterung im Auszug nicht sichtbar.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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)
- Viktor Spieglb. 1872CZHolocaust victim (born 1872)
- František Spieglb. 1900CZHolocaust victim (born 1900)
- Zdeněk Spieglb. 1904Holocaust victim (born 1904)
- Alan Spieglb. 1959CZCzech figure skater
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 100 | #150,436 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 34 | #38,334 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 34 | #12,579 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 28 | #28,759 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 10 | #31,262 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Spiegl?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃpiːɡl/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Spiegl mean?
- Recorded meaning: indirekter Berufsname zu mhd.
- In which country does Spiegl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 810 people named Spiegl in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled spiegl.
- How common is the name Spiegl?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 34 people named Spiegl, about 1 in 315 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/spieglThe 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, “Spiegl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.