Spuhler
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from 'Spulenmacher' or 'the one who spools','turns a spindle'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈspuɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Spuhler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 651K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 18K
- CNChina≈1 in 142K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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(measured from records)
from 'Spulenmacher' or 'the one who spools','turns a spindle'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Spuhler 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Spuhler | 2 |
| US United States | 511 | 1 in 651K | 524 | Spuhler | 166 |
| CH Switzerland | 457 | 1 in 18K | 457 | Spuhler | 33 |
| DE Germany | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 256K | — | Spuhler | 48 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 775K | 27 | Spuhler | 30 |
| CA Canada | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 526K | — | Spuhler | 15 |
| CU Cuba | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 233K | — | Spuhler | 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 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Spuhler 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, from 'Spulenmacher' or 'the one who spools'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Johnny Spuhlerb. 1917GBEnglish footballer and manager (1917-2007)
- Hap Spuhlerb. 1918USbasketball player-coach, baseball coach, and athletic director (1918–1982)
- Willy Spuhlerb. 1941CHcyclist
- Peter Spuhlerb. 1959CHSwiss politician
- Gregor Spuhlerb. 1963CHSwiss historian of modern age
- Peter Spuhlerb. 1965DEGerman intendant
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 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 524 | #39,499 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 511 | #42,455 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 471 | #48,441 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 209 | #6,036 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 27 | #74,851 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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
- What does the name Spuhler mean, and where does it come from?
- from 'Spulenmacher' or 'the one who spools','turns a spindle' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Spuhler?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈspuɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Spuhler have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.8 thousand people named Spuhler in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled spuhler.
- Where is Spuhler most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Spuhler is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Spuhler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 511 people named Spuhler in 2010, about 1 in 651 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Spuhler?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/spuhlerThe 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, “Spuhler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.