Spiegl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: indirekter Berufsname zu mhd
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Spiegl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 9.5Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 85K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 300K
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)
- Record sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈990 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Where the surname Spiegl is found
(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 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Spiegl | 83 |
| AT Austria | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Spiegl | 54 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 775K | — | Spiegl | 1 |
| US United States | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | 100 | Spiegl | 82 |
| CZ Czechia | 34 | 1 in 315K | 34 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 28 | 1 in 300K | 28 | Spiegl | 7 |
| EE Estonia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 409K | listed | — | 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 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
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)
- 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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Spiegl mean?
- Recorded meaning: indirekter Berufsname zu mhd.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Spiegl?
- Mondonomo estimates about 985 people named Spiegl in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled spiegl. After it come Austria, Pakistan, United States and Czechia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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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 2026-10-13.