Schäms
surname · Latin script
Schäms is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 700K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 1.3M
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
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
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 700K (inferred from the name graph)
234 people, 2010
Reference-verified
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 Schams in EG Egypt.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schäms 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 | 234 | 1 in 1.4M | 266 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | — |
| EG Egypt | — | — | — | Schams | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | — | 5 | — | — |
234 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Schäms have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 234 people named Schäms, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Schäms most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schäms is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 700 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Schäms?
- In the United States, the national register counted 234 people named Schäms in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Schäms?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sch%C3%A4msThe 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, “Schäms”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.