Shnitzer
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shnitzer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 12Kas שניצר(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 27Kas שניצר
- LVLatvia≈1 in 47Kas שניצר
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 Shnitzer 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
1,615 named Schnitzer, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Israel, as שניצר
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled שניצר in IL Israel, RO Romania, PL Poland and 2 more and Schnitzer in US United States, UZ Uzbekistan.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shnitzer 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 | 1,615as Schnitzer | 1 in 206K | 1.6K | Schnitzer | 39 |
| RO Romania | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | שניצר | 2 |
| IL Israel | 703as שניצר | 1 in 12K | 703 | שניצר | 28 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Schnitzer | 3 |
| PL Poland | 238as Sznicer | 1 in 161K | 122 | שניצר | 2 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | שניצר | 1 |
| LV Latvia | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | שניצר | 2 |
1,615 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Alain Shnitzerb. 1949FRFrench politician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #240,075 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #393,583 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Shnitzer have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Schnitzer, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Shnitzer most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Shnitzer itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Israel's: the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people named שניצר.
- How common is the name Shnitzer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,615 people named Schnitzer in 2010, about 1 in 206 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Shnitzer?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shnitzerThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Shnitzer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.