# Spiro (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/spiro/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Greek |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,011 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,011 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Probably borrowed from Albanian Spiro.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 9 | 8,824 |
| 2008 | 10 | 8,223 |
| 2009 | 8 | 9,732 |
| 2010 | 6 | 11,995 |
| 2011 | 6 | 12,063 |
| 2012 | 7 | 10,604 |
| 2013 | 8 | 9,537 |
| 2014 | 10 | 8,046 |
| 2016 | 8 | 9,549 |
| 2017 | 7 | 10,610 |
| 2018 | 9 | 8,730 |
| 2020 | 7 | 10,454 |
| 2021 | 6 | 11,945 |
| 2023 | 5 | 13,909 |
| 2024 | 5 | 13,967 |

## People named Spiro

- Spiro Koleka, Albanian civil engineer, army official and communist politician (1908-2001)
- Spiro Debarski, Bulgarian footballer
- Spiro Kostof, American architectural historian (1936-1991)
- Spiro Moisiu, Albanian resistance leader and general (1900-1981)
- Spiro Dine, Albanian writer
- Špiro Guberina, Croatian actor (1933-2020)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.