Meaning & origin
Shapiro’s family of names
In English usage, Shapiro as a surname shares a linguistic root with the Yiddish form שאַפּיראָ. In English usage, Shapiro as a surname has a related form in Spiro. In English usage, Shapiro as a surname has a related form in Sapir.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Shapiro has relatives in 12 languages. Lines run from its Yiddish roots to each of them.
Yiddishwhere Shapiro comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Spirovariant · English
- Sapirvariant · English
- Shaperovariant · English
- Schapirovariant · English, German
- Szapirovariant · English, Polish
- Szpirovariant · English
- Shapiravariant · English
- Shaperavariant · English
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- ШапіроUkrainian
- ŠapiroCzech
- ШапироRussian
- ChapiroSpanish
- ШапираRussian
- ȘapiroRomanian
- SapíróIrish
- שפיראHebrew
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