Spilling
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The act of dropping or spreading out of a fluid or particles
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈspɪɫɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Spilling is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Norway.
- Norway (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 1 (measured from records)
no count published
Community-sourced
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Prunus domestica ssp. insititia var. pomariorum, a variety of European plum
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Spilling is read(measured from records)
Spilling is one spelling over 3 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.
- English66%
The act of dropping or spreading out of a fluid or particles.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German13%
Prunus domestica ssp. insititia var. pomariorum, a variety of European plum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
from the fruit name 'yellow plum'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
"gelbe Pflaume", Spelling
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Norwegian11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Spilling in Norwegian.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Spilling counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | — | 380 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 218 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 7 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 7 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 4 | — | 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Spilling 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 Icelandic, corruption
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)
- Peder P. Spillingb. 1840NONorwegian politician
- John Kinder Spillingb. 1850(1850-1936)
- Knut Spillingb. 1865NOfeatured in the Norwegian Who's Who 1948
- Karl Spillingb. 1873DEGerman painter and graphic artist
- Willy Spillingb. 1909DEGerman composer (1909–1965)
- Frank Spillingb. 1912Australian rules footballer (1912-1980)
- Pål Spillingb. 1934NONorwegian computer scientist
- Helene Spilling Ødegaardb. 1996NONorwegian professional dancer (born 1996)
- Haakon Spillingb. 2003NONorwegian volleyball player
- Rolv-Erik SpillingNOBusinessperson from Norway
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 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 380 | #3,848 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 218 | #20,175 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #50,866 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Spilling come from?
- Prunus domestica ssp. insititia var. pomariorum, a variety of European plum Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Spilling?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈspɪɫɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Spilling mean?
- In English, The act of dropping or spreading out of a fluid or particles.
- In which country does Spilling have the most bearers?
- Spilling is most frequently recorded in Norway.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/spillingThe 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, “Spilling”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.