Spieler
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A swindler, a gambler
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈspiɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Spieler is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- ATAustria
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)player
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Spieler is read
(measured from records)Spieler 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.
- English53%
A swindler, a gambler.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German30%
player
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
agent noun of spielen; player
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Berufsname: zu mhd. spilære 'Spieler' (Musikant oder Würfelspieler); teils auch aus Spiegler 'Spiegelmacher'. 12+799 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mathias Spielerb. 1640SESwedish architect (1640–1691)
- Marie Spielerb. 1845DEGerman painter (1845-1913)
- Hugo Spielerb. 1854DEGerman sculptor (1854–1922)
- Fritz Spielerb. 1893CHphysician from Switzerland
- Hermann Spielerb. 1894DEGerman judge, Federal Court of Justice (1894-1979)
- Josef Spielerb. 1900DEGerman psychologist and educationist (1900-1987)
- Willy Spielerb. 1937CHSwiss opinion journalist and politician (1937-2016)
- Ortwin Spielerb. 1938German actor
- Robert Spielerb. 1951FRFrench politician
- Reinhard Spielerb. 1964DEGerman art historian
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 599 | #35,522 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 596 | #39,767 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 467 | #45,740 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 201 | #6,249 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 94 | #16,033 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 33 | #139,729 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 23 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 19 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 19 | #93,705 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 18 | #97,089 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 16 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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
- Where does the name Spieler come from?
- player Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- How do you pronounce Spieler?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈspiɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Spieler mean?
- In English, A swindler, a gambler.
- In which country does Spieler have the most bearers?
- Spieler is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/spielerThe 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, “Spieler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.