Spurrier
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OE spura ‘spur’, ‘spur-maker’; first attested Walter Spurier t
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/spɝɹiɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Spurrier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 143K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 196K
- CNChina≈1 in 62K
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
- 244 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from OE spura ‘spur’, ‘spur-maker’; first attested Walter Spurier t. John HPD (Ess)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Spurrier 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 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Spurrier | 2 |
| US United States | 1,701 | 1 in 196K | 1.7K | Spurrier | 244 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 143K | 561 | Spurrier | 84 |
| CA Canada | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 270K | — | Spurrier | 20 |
| AU Australia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | Spurrier | 45 |
| IE Ireland | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Spurrier | 3 |
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). 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)
Spurrier is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A maker of spurs.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, maker of spurs.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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)
- Christopher Spurrierb. 1783GBBritish Member of Parliament (1783-1876)
- Steven Spurrierb. 1878GBBritish artist (1878–1961)
- Henry Spurrierb. 1898GBBritish businessman (1898–1964)
- Steve Spurrierb. 1945USAmerican football player and coach (born 1945)
- Caroline Spurrierb. 1957GB(born 1957)
- Paul Spurrierb. 1967THBritish film director
- Jo Spurrierb. 1980AUAustralian writer
- Martha Spurrierb. 1986GBBritish barrister, human rights campaigner and director of Liberty
- Nicola SpurrierAustralian paediatrician and public health administrator
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 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,789 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,765 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,328 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 561 | #10,374 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Spurrier come from?
- from OE spura ‘spur’, ‘spur-maker’; first attested Walter Spurier t. John HPD (Ess) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Spurrier?
- A machine transcription gives /spɝɹiɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Spurrier mean?
- Recorded meaning: from OE spura ‘spur’, ‘spur-maker’; first attested Walter Spurier t.
- In which country does Spurrier have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Spurrier in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled spurrier.
- How common is the name Spurrier?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,701 people named Spurrier in 2010, about 1 in 196 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/spurrierThe 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, “Spurrier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.