Schönen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: inflection of schön:
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Schönen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 99Kas Schoenen(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 5.5M
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 392Kas Schoenen
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 Schönen 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
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.5M (inferred from the name graph)
≈810 named Schoenen, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Schoenen in DE Germany, US United States, BE Belgium and 2 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)inflection of schön:
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Schönen 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 | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 99K | listed | Schoenen | 69 |
| US United States | 150as Schoenen | 1 in 2.2M | 150 | Schoenen | 34 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 392K | — | Schoenen | 9 |
| BE Belgium | 14as Schoenen | 1 in 837K | 14 | Schoenen | 9 |
| PL Poland | 7 | 1 in 5.5M | 5 | Schoenen | 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: the dfa-band-1 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #208,840 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #390,920 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Schönen mean, and where does it come from?
- inflection of schön: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Schönen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 810 people named Schoenen in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Schönen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schönen is densest in Poland — about 1 in 5.5 million people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Schönen?
- In Poland, the national register counted 7 people named Schönen in 2026, about 1 in 5.5 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sch%C3%B6nenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Schönen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.