Schoener
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Nonstandard spelling of schöner used in some older texts and when technical limitations prevent the use of umlauts
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Schoener is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 301K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 2.3M
- DEGermany≈1 in 31Kas Schöner
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 Schoener itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- 1 in 301K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 named Schöner, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Schöner in DE Germany, AT Austria and Schoner in US United States, SS South Sudan.
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)Nonstandard spelling of schöner used in some older texts and when technical limitations prevent the use of umlauts.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Schoener 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 31K | listed | Schöner | 69 |
| US United States | 1,105 | 1 in 301K | 1.1K | Schoner | 144 |
| AT Austria | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Schöner | 34 |
| SS South Sudan | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Schoner | 1 |
| FR France | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 694K | 14 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 25as Schöner | 1 in 428K | 25 | — | — |
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: the dfa-band-1 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Schoener 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 Dutch, a neighbourhood of Lelystad, Flevoland, Netherlands
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Allon Schoenerb. 1926USAmerican curator
- Eberhard Schoenerb. 1938DEGerman composer
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,424 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,100 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,425 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 10 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Schoener mean, and where does it come from?
- Nonstandard spelling of schöner used in some older texts and when technical limitations prevent the use of umlauts. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Schoener have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Schöner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Schoener most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schoener is densest in the United States — about 1 in 301 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Schoener?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,105 people named Schoener in 2010, about 1 in 301 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Schoener?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schoenerThe 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, “Schoener”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.