Spinel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Any of several hard minerals of cubic symmetry that are mixed oxides of magnesium and aluminium and are used as gemstones of various colours
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Spinel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 366K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 366K (inferred from the name graph)
107 people
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Any of several hard minerals of cubic symmetry that are mixed oxides of magnesium and aluminium and are used as gemstones of various colours.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Spinel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 107 | 1 in 2M | 107 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 32 | 1 in 366K | 32 | Spinel | 4 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Spinel | 27 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Spinel | 8 |
| IT Italy | — | — | — | Spinel | 2 |
107 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)
Spinel is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, redução dialetal setentrional de Spinello
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In ang, spindle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, SPINÉL, spineli, s. m. Minereu de magneziu cristalizat în sistemul cubic, divers colorat, cu luciu sticlos și duritate mare, cu varietăți folosite ca pietre prețioase.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 107 | #60,224 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 32 | #35,725 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Spinel mean, and where does it come from?
- Any of several hard minerals of cubic symmetry that are mixed oxides of magnesium and aluminium and are used as gemstones of various colours. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Spinel have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 107 people named Spinel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Spinel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Spinel is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 366 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Spinel?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 107 people named Spinel, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/spinelThe 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, “Spinel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.