Schumann
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Occupational surname: shoemaker/shoeman (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Schumann is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 10Kfew records
- NONorway1 in 20K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 321 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈37,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Schuemann in BR Brazil.
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)Occupational surname: shoemaker/shoeman.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Schumann is found
(measured from records)Schumann 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 | #105 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Schumann | 195 |
| US United States | — | 6,777 | 1 in 49K | 6.8K | Schumann | 321 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,528 | 1 in 84K | 2.5K | Schuemann | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 254 | Schumann | 82 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Schumann | 53 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 348 | 1 in 24K | 348 | Schumann | 37 |
| NO Norway | — | 272 | 1 in 20K | 272 | Schumann | 28 |
| DK Denmark | — | 209 | 1 in 28K | 209 | Schumann | 36 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #340 | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Schumann | 1 |
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; the dfa-band-1 register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Schumann is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, a surname originating as an occupation, notably of the German composer Robert Schumann
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Berufsname: zu 'Schuhmann' (Mann des Schuhhandwerks); historische Formen auch Schůman, Schomanne, Schumans, Schueman.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Berufsname: zum Schuhmacherhandwerk; aus mhd. schuochman/Schuhmann, ‘Mann beim Schuhmachen’.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Berufsname zum Schuhmacherhandwerk; 'Schuhmann/Schuhmacher'. Bearer count: 13218.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Berufsname zu 'Schuster'; zeigt die Längenanzeige durch Schuh-/uh-Schreibung.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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)- Robert Schumannb. 1810DEGerman composer, pianist and critic (1810–1856)
- Clara Schumannb. 1819DEGerman musician and composer (1819–1896)
- Conrad Schumannb. 1942DEEast German soldier (1942-1998)
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)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Schumann mean, and where does it come from?
- Occupational surname: shoemaker/shoeman. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- What are other forms of the name Schumann?
- In the etymology graph, Schumacher, Schuster and Schubert are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Schumann?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Schumann in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schumann. After it come United States, Brazil, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Schumann?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,777 people named Schumann in 2010, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
- How common is Schumann compared with other names?
- In Germany, Schumann is the 105th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schumannThe 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, “Schumann” — the 105th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.