Schomaker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Berufsname: niederdt
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈʃoʊˌmeɪkɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schomaker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 43K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 435K
- NLNetherlands1 in 6.9Kas Schoemaker
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 Schomaker 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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
2,489 named Schoemaker, 2007
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Schoemaker in NL Netherlands.
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)
Berufsname: niederdt. Form zu Schuhmacher = Hersteller/Reparateur von Schuhen; 12 Types/1683 Tokens.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schomaker 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #642 | 2,489as Schoemaker | 1 in 6.9K | 2.5K | Schoemaker | 65 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 43K | listed | Schomaker | 92 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Schomaker | 1 |
| US United States | — | 765 | 1 in 435K | 1.2K | Schomaker | 179 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Schomaker | 10 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Schomaker | 1 |
2,489 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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; the deutsche-namenkunde-gottschald-1982 register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Schomaker is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Berufsname zu mhd. machen, mnd. maken; 5 Typen/1.493 Tokens. Demonstriert ch/(c)k-Varianz.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Schreibvariante zu Schumacher mit o-Schreibung; 1.493 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Berufsname: Schuhmacher; bearer count 1683.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, s. Schuh- macher
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Alwin Schomakerb. 1907DEGerman writer (1907-1982)
- Lambert Schomakerb. 1957NLAI researcher
- Antje Schomakerb. 1992DEGerman singer-songwriter
- Sophia Schomakerb. 1994DEGerman association football player
- Nele Schomakerb. 1994DEGerman association football player
- Margaret SchomakerUSuniversity professor
- Astrid SchomakerDEGerman diplomat
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 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,378 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 769 | #29,040 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 765 | #30,509 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 301 | #6,841 |
| DE Germany | Deutsche Namenkunde (Gottschald, 1982) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Schomaker?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃoʊˌmeɪkɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Schomaker mean?
- Recorded meaning: Berufsname: niederdt.
- In which country does Schomaker have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Schoemaker, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Schomaker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 765 people named Schomaker in 2010, about 1 in 435 thousand residents.
- How common is Schomaker compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Schomaker is the 642nd most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schomakerThe 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, “Schomaker” — the 642nd most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.