Spurgeon
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/spɝdʒən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Spurgeon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): E Anglia: esp. Essex. apparently a variant of Spurden . Compare Robert Spurgin, 1602, Joseph Spurdens, 1634 in IGI (Stepney, Middx); John Spurgeon, 1681, Richd.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 46K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 47K
- CACanada≈1 in 57K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 324 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
7,047 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): E Anglia: esp. Essex. apparently a variant of Spurden . Compare Robert Spurgin, 1602, Joseph Spurdens, 1634 in IGI (Stepney, Middx); John Spurgeon, 1681, Richd. Spurden, 1711 in IGI (Great Oakley, Essex); Fra. John Spurgeon, 1719, Eliz: Spurdens, 1748, Elizabeth Spurden, 1761, John Spurgens, 1838 in IGI (Dickleburgh, Norfolk). However, the change in the medial consonant is difficult to explain without an intermediary *Spurdion (or something similar), which is not on record and would be an irregular development of Spurden. The name may have been influenced by confusion with Pridgeon and Spridgeon but the evidence for this is slight. Further information: The story that the Spurgeon family of Essex were 16th-century immigrants from the Netherlands (related in Titford) does not seem to be supported by any evidence.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Where in the world(measured from records)
Spurgeon 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 | — | 7,047 | 1 in 47K | 7K | Spurgeon | 324 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 1.4K | Spurgeon | 134 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Spurgeon | 4 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 57K | 1 | Spurgeon | 68 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Spurgeon | 59 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Spurgeon | 4 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Spurgeon | 4 |
| BB Barbados | #110 | — | — | — | Spurgeon | 2 |
7,047 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
- Charles Haddon Spurgeonb. 1834GBBritish preacher, author, pastor and evangelist (1834-1892)
- Thomas Spurgeonb. 1856GBBritish baptist minister (1856-1917)
- Caroline Spurgeonb. 1869GBEnglish literary critic (1869–1942)
- Florence Meltonb. 1911USnot in their usual nameAmerican inventor
- Keith Spurgeonb. 1933GBEnglish footballer and manager (1933-1984)
- Maureen Spurgeonb. 1941GBBritish writer
- Tom Spurgeonb. 1968USAmerican writer (1968-2019)
- Jay Spurgeonb. 1976USAmerican baseball player
- Tyler Spurgeonb. 1986CACanadian ice hockey player
- Jared Spurgeonb. 1989CACanadian ice hockey player
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 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7K | #4,981 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.9K | #4,688 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.8K | #5,036 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.4K | #5,075 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Spurgeon?
- A machine transcription gives /spɝdʒən/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Spurgeon mean?
- Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): E Anglia: esp. Essex. apparently a variant of Spurden . Compare Robert Spurgin, 1602, Joseph Spurdens, 1634 in IGI (Stepney, Middx); John Spurgeon, 1681, Richd.
- In which country does Spurgeon have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.0 thousand people named Spurgeon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled spurgeon.
- How common is the name Spurgeon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,047 people named Spurgeon in 2010, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
- How common is Spurgeon compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Spurgeon is the 110th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/spurgeonThe 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, “Spurgeon” — the 110th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.