Spahandelin

Swedish

Etymology

Coined by Persian-Swedish Crown Equerry Thure Spahandelin, née Abdollah Esfahani, in circa 1620, learned borrowing from Persian سپاهان (/⁠Spahān⁠/), an older form of the city and surname اصفهانی (/⁠esfahâni⁠/, “Isfahan”).

Proper noun

Spahandelin ? (genitive Spahandelins)

1. a surname.

Derived terms

• Sandelin (surname)

Statistics

• In 2024 the Swedish Tax Agency has no record of anyone with the surname Spahandelin in Sweden, nor in the 2022 Statistics Sweden surname register.