Spohn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Occupational surname from mhd (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Spohn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 3,117 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- USUnited States1 in 107K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 108K
- ARArgentina1 in 606K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 107K (inferred from the name graph)
3,117 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Occupational surname from mhd. spān 'wood splint': maker or seller of light splints; possibly also a nickname for a haggard person; 843 bearers.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Where the surname Spohn is found
(measured from records)Spohn 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 | 3,117 | 1 in 107K | 3.1K | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 179 | 1 in 1.2M | 179 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 78 | 1 in 108K | 78 | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 75 | 1 in 606K | 75 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 11 | 1 in 4.5M | 11 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | — |
3,117 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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)Spohn 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, Berufsname: Nebenform zu Spahn, zu mnd. Span „Span, Splitter“; für einen Holzarbeiter/Spanmacher. Bearer count: 843.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)- Willfried Spohnb. 1944DEGerman sociologist and social scientist (1944–2012)
- Herbert Spohnb. 1946DEGerman mathematician
- Wolfgang Spohnb. 1950DEGerman philosopher (born 1950)
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Spohn come from?
- Occupational surname from mhd. spān 'wood splint': maker or seller of light splints; possibly also a nickname for a haggard person; 843 bearers. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- What does the name Spohn mean?
- Recorded meaning: Occupational surname from mhd.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Spohn?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Spohn, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Brazil, Switzerland, Argentina and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Spohn most common?
- Spohn is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 107 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Spohn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,117 people named Spohn in 2010, about 1 in 107 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/spohnThe 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, “Spohn” — ranked 9761st in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.