Schnitzler
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Berufsname: Schnitzer/Handwerker; zu mhd
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈʃnɪtsɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schnitzler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 104K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 129K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 182K
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
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 104K (inferred from the name graph)
1,200 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Berufsname: Schnitzer/Handwerker; zu mhd. snitzen 'schneiden, schnitzen'. Bearer count: 2616.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schnitzler 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 | 1,200 | 1 in 277K | 1.3K | Schnitzler | 29 |
| NL Netherlands | 166 | 1 in 104K | 166 | Schnitzler | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 67 | 1 in 3.2M | 67 | Schnitzler | 32 |
| CH Switzerland | 65 | 1 in 129K | 65 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 51 | 1 in 230K | 51 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | 28 | 1 in 182K | 28 | Schnitzler | 7 |
1,200 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Schnitzler 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 Croatian, austrijski književnik i liječnik-psiholog; slojevite i dopadljivo pisane psihološke drame i pripovijetke iz života bečkog građanstva i oficirskog staleža na prijelazu stoljeća; proza bečke moderne
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Arthur Schnitzlerb. 1862ATAustrian writer (1862–1931)
- Olga Schnitzlerb. 1882ATAustrian actress and singer
- Heinrich Schnitzlerb. 1902ATAustrian playwright and theatre director (1902–1982)
- Karl-Eduard von Schnitzlerb. 1918DEGerman journalist (1918–2001)
- Conrad Schnitzlerb. 1937DEGerman experimental musician (1937–2011)
- Michael Schnitzlerb. 1944ATAustrian musician
- Lothar Schnitzlerb. 1947DEGerman politician
- Barbara Schnitzlerb. 1953DEGerman actress
- Gregor Schnitzlerb. 1964DEfilm director
- Oliver Schnitzlerb. 1995DEGerman association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,820 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,700 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,372 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 166 | #12,404 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 67 | #85,160 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 65 | #15,331 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 51 | #25,745 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #38,007 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 28 | #3,029 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Schnitzler?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃnɪtsɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Schnitzler mean?
- Recorded meaning: Berufsname: Schnitzer/Handwerker; zu mhd.
- In which country does Schnitzler have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Schnitzler, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schnitzler.
- Where is Schnitzler most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schnitzler is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 104 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Schnitzler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,200 people named Schnitzler in 2010, about 1 in 277 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schnitzlerThe 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, “Schnitzler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.