Family tradition says it was taken from a town or lake named Spiegel.
There is a small community south of Munich named Spiegel.
There are also a significant number of Jewish people with the surname, and it is said that this name originated from a house sign in the Frankfurt am Main (Judengasse) picturing a mirror.
[2] The form Spiegel is documented in Frankfurt am Main since the 16th century.
Variants are Szpiegel, Schpiegel, Shpi(e)gel, Şpighel, etc.