Sorry. Was called away for a bit. I was going to say that what I suggested was at first glance. The best way to figure out the puzzle is to trying different spellings to see if you can locate an actual name. It is hard to say exactly, but there are many options that you can try. Look for the letters in others parts of the record to see what matches.

The first letter could be an S. The second letter looks like it has a tail, so maybe it is p. The third letter could be a mistake and a big dot was added to make the letter i. The end of the word looks like ling or lings.

so think of all possibilities and work from there

Spilings, Spiling, spllings, Splling, Iplling, Ipiling, and so on.

hope that helps.