Spielman
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈspiɫmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Spielman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 16Kas שפילמן(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 103K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 7.8Kas Spielmann
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 Spielman 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- 1 in 103K (inferred from the name graph)
3,228 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled שפילמן in IL Israel, RO Romania, LB Lebanon and 1 more and Shpilman in US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Spielman 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,228 | 1 in 103K | 3.2K | Shpilman | 61 |
| CH Switzerland | 1,077as Spielmann | 1 in 7.8K | 1.1K | — | 1 |
| RO Romania | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | שפילמן | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 602as Spielmann | 1 in 352K | 602 | — | — |
| IL Israel | 530as שפילמן | 1 in 16K | 530 | שפילמן | 23 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | שפילמן | 1 |
| HU Hungary | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | שפילמן | 3 |
3,228 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling spielman. 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
- Sir Meyer Adam Spielmanb. 1856British school inspector (1856-1936)
- Andrew Spielmanb. 1930USAmerican entomologist (1930-2006)
- David Spielmanb. 1950USAmerican photographer
- Andrew I. Spielmanb. 1950RORomanian-American biochemist
- Udi Spielmanb. 1951ILsinger (1951–)
- Amanda Spielmanb. 1961GBHM Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills
- Rick Spielmanb. 1962USAmerican football player
- Chris Spielmanb. 1965USAmerican football player, coach, and executive (born 1965)
- Daniel Spielmanb. 1970USAmerican computer scientist
- Dan Spielmanb. 1979AUAustralian actor
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #9,991 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.2K | #9,436 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3K | #10,329 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 40 | #122,472 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Spielman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈspiɫmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Spielman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Spielman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shpilman.
- Where is Spielman most common?
- Spielman is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 103 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Spielman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,228 people named Spielman in 2010, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Spielman?
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/spielmanThe 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, “Spielman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.