Schaber
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Schaber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: agent noun of schaben:.
- DEGermany≈1 in 52K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 332K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
agent noun of schaben:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schaber 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Schaber | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Schaber | 95 |
| US United States | — | 1,002 | 1 in 332K | 1K | Schaber | 204 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 262K | — | Schaber | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Schaber | 35 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 49 | 1 in 172K | 49 | Schaber | 15 |
| BZ Belize | #761 | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Schaber | 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)
Schaber is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Berufsname zu mhd. schaben 'kratzen, polieren'; meint Tuchscherer, Barbier u.a.; Bearer count: 694+3.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Else Rüthelb. 1899DEnot in their usual nameGerman poet (1899–1938)
- Will Schaberb. 1905DEGerman journalist (1905–1996)
- Franz Schaberb. 1923ATAustrian politician (1923-2010)
- Gaston Schaberb. 1926LULuxembourgish university teacher and psychologist (1926-2010)
- Erich Schaberb. 1946ATAustrian painter and sculptor
- Penny Bernard Schaberb. 1953USAmerican politician
- Romuald Schaberb. 1957DEGerman farmer
- Sarah Schaberb. 1994DEGerman cross-country skier
- Ricarda Schaberb. 1997DEassociation football player
- Clemens F Schaberresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Schaber mean, and where does it come from?
- agent noun of schaben: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Schaber have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Schaber in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schaber.
- How common is the name Schaber?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,002 people named Schaber in 2010, about 1 in 332 thousand residents.
- How common is Schaber compared with other names?
- In Belize, Schaber is the 761st most common surname of 11,408 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Schaber?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schaberThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Schaber” — the 761st most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.