Schnábel
surname · Latin script
Schnábel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle High German snabel, from Old High German snabul, from Proto-Germanic *snabulaz (“snout, muzzle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ksnew- (“to scratch, rub”).
- CHSwitzerland1 in 88K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 107K
- FIFinland1 in 114K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 88K (inferred from the name graph)
3,110 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Schnabel in US United States, PL Poland.
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)
- Middle High Germansnabel(measured from records)
- Old High Germansnabul(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*snabulaz“snout“snout, muzzle”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*ksnew-“to scratch“to scratch, rub”(measured from records)
From Middle High German snabel, from Old High German snabul, from Proto-Germanic *snabulaz (“snout, muzzle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ksnew- (“to scratch, rub”). Cognate with Dutch snavel, Saterland Frisian Snoabel (“beak, bill”), Old English snofl (“mucus, snivel”).
Sources 3
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schnábel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,110 | 1 in 107K | 3.1K | Schnabel | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | 98 | 1 in 176K | 98 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 96 | 1 in 88K | 96 | — | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 58 | 1 in 202K | 58 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 57 | 1 in 672K | 35 | Schnabel | 13 |
| FI Finland | 49 | 1 in 114K | 49 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 40 | 1 in 137K | 40 | — | — |
3,110 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Schnábel mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle High German snabel, from Old High German snabul, from Proto-Germanic *snabulaz (“snout, muzzle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ksnew- (“to scratch, rub”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 1 other source.
- In which country does Schnábel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Schnábel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schnabel.
- Where is Schnábel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schnábel is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 88 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Schnábel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,110 people named Schnábel in 2010, about 1 in 107 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schn%C3%A1belThe 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, “Schnábel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.