Šuster
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Croatian: shoemaker
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995
/ˈʃuscer/(recorded in a dictionary) Slovak · from Wiktionary
Šuster is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SKSlovakia1 in 15K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 38K
- ILIsrael1 in 5.4Kas שוסטר
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 Šuster 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 327 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
17,325 named Schuster, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shuster in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and שוסטר in IL Israel, RO Romania, LV Latvia.
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)a male surname originating as an occupation
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Šuster is read
(measured from records)Šuster is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Croatian69%
shoemaker
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Slovak14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Šuster in Slovak.
- Czech8.2%
a male surname originating as an occupation
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Šuster 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 | — | 17,325as Schuster | 1 in 19K | 17K | Shuster | 327 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,868as Schuster | 1 in 36K | 5.9K | — | 3 |
| IL Israel | #496 | 1,612as שוסטר | 1 in 5.4K | 1.6K | שוסטר | 47 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | שוסטר | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 96K | listed | Shuster | 44 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 698as Schuster | 1 in 12K | 698 | Shuster | 3 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 363 | 1 in 15K | 363 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | שוסטר | 3 |
17,325 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling schuster. 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Dagmar Šusterb. 1944SISlovenian politician
- Marija Šusterb. 1950SIresearcher
- Danilo Šusterb. 1960SISlovene philosopher
- Roman Šusterb. 1978CZCzech rugby union player
- Simon Šusterb. 1983SIresearcher
- Nataša Kenda ŠusterSISlovenian researcher
- Katja ŠusterSIresearcher
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 363 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- Where does the name Šuster come from?
- a male surname originating as an occupation Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Šuster?
- It depends on the language: in Slovak /ˈʃuscer/ (Wiktionary); in Czech /ˈʃustɛr/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Šuster mean?
- In Croatian, shoemaker
- In which country does Šuster have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Schuster, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Šuster most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šuster is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Šuster?
- In Slovakia, the national register counted 363 people named Šuster in 1995, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Šuster compared with other names?
- In Israel, Šuster is the 496th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1usterThe 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, “Šuster” — the 496th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.