Speller
surname · Latin script
Meaning: agent deriv. of ME spell(en) to tell, relate (OE spellian)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/spɛlɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Speller is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 125K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 165K
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
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 Speller 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
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 125K (inferred from the name graph)
2,668 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 Спеллер in RU Russia.
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)
agent deriv. of ME spell(en) to tell, relate (OE spellian). There has probably been some confusion with Spieler. Ger.: Spieg(e)i, Spiegeimann. Jewish: Spigler, Spi(e)gel(man).
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Speller 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 | 2,668 | 1 in 125K | 2.7K | Speller | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | 105 | 1 in 165K | 105 | — | 1 |
| RU Russia | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 6.7M | — | Спеллер | 32 |
| AR Argentina | 10 | 1 in 4.5M | 10 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 7 | 1 in 5.5M | 5 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | — |
2,668 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Speller is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, agent deriv. of ME spell(en) to tell, relate (OE spelhan). There has probably been some confusion with Spiller. Vars.: Spelar, Spel(l)man.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, A person who spells.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, (i) Reciter; (ii) a different form of Spiller.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In German, 1. from ON Spelle(n); 2. see spalten; 3. see spenel.
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, ON. Spelle(n). 2. s. spalten. 3. s. spenel
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)
- Fred Spellerb. 1863GBEnglish footballer (1863-1909)
- Frank Newman Spellerb. 1875USAmerican metallurgist (1875–1968)
- Émile Spellerb. 1875LULuxembourgish military officer
- Antony Spellerb. 1929GBBritish politician (1929-2013)
- Jules Spellerb. 1943LULuxembourgish writer
- Bob Spellerb. 1956CACanadian politician
- Anna Spellerb. 1984NLDutch actor and singer
- Cody Spellerb. 1994CACanadian football offensive lineman
- Camilla SpellerCAbiomolecular archaeologist and researcher
- Martin SpellerGBPh.D. University of Oxford 1970
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 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,743 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.5K | #12,100 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #12,047 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 105 | #18,393 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 10 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #210,239 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #121,619 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #397,828 |
| 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
- Where does the name Speller come from?
- agent deriv. of ME spell(en) to tell, relate (OE spellian). There has probably been some confusion with Spieler. Ger.: Spieg(e)i, Spiegeimann. Jewish: Spigler, Spi(e)gel(man). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Speller?
- A machine transcription gives /spɛlɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Speller mean?
- Recorded meaning: agent deriv. of ME spell(en) to tell, relate (OE spellian).
- What are other forms of the name Speller?
- In the etymology graph, Spell and Spelling are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Speller have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Speller, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled speller.
- Where is Speller most common?
- Speller is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 125 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Speller?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,668 people named Speller in 2010, about 1 in 125 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/spellerThe 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, “Speller”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.