Knörnschild
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Zu mhd./nd. knorren/knirren?
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: BFS, 2024
Knörnschild is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 170Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- USUnited States1 in 1.5Mas Knoernschild
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Knörnschild itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 173K (inferred from the name graph)
≈480 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Knoernschild in US United States, GB United Kingdom, MY Malaysia and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Zu mhd./nd. knorren/knirren? Satzname zu einer lautlichen Nebenform im Schild-Namenkomplex; Morphologie zeigt -s/-en-Varianten. 11 Types/295 Tokens.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Where in the world
(measured from records)Knörnschild counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 173K | — | Knörnschild | 33 |
| US United States | 222as Knoernschild | 1 in 1.5M | 229 | Knoernschild | 104 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Knoernschild | 1 |
| PH Philippines | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | — | Knoernschild | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Knoernschild | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Knörnschild | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Knörnschild is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Univerbierter Satzname; zusammengerückte Form mit -schild, Beispiel für die Verschmelzung von Satznamen zu einem Familiennamen; 295 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Übername; univerbierter Satzname zu nd. knören „puffen, drücken, zerknittern“: „ich drücke den Schild“.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Zu Knörn- + Schild; demonstriert die morphologische Variante mit Erstglied-Kürzung vor Schild.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Knörnschild mean?
- Recorded meaning: Zu mhd./nd. knorren/knirren?
- In which country does Knörnschild have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 482 people named Knörnschild in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled knörnschild.
- How common is the name Knörnschild?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3 people named Knörnschild in 2024, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Knörnschild”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.