Schatz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Schatzmann, a preacher in the synagogue, or a spiritual guide, only found in the district of Under Rhine, Baden 1809
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃæts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schatz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 6.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 9.2K
- USUnited States1 in 53K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 345 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, 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 Schaetz in JM Jamaica.
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)
Schatzmann, a preacher in the synagogue, or a spiritual guide, only found in the district of Under Rhine, Baden 1809.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schatz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Schatz | 7 |
| DE Germany | #661 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Schatz | 145 |
| US United States | — | 6,261 | 1 in 53K | 6.3K | Schatz | 345 |
| AT Austria | #374 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Schatz | 61 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 207 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 252 | 1 in 33K | 252 | Schatz | 29 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Schatz | 9 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Schaetz | 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)
Schatz 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, treasure, sweetheart
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In German, treasure
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, übern. Schon ahd. Scaz.(el)o. Schatz, |e, 1, (el) meyer, eder; Schaz- mann, Schätz, |l, le(in) (S. 116),, eil, chen, ke, i(n)g; Oberschätzl; Schäz- le(r), Schetzke. Satzn. Mehrnschatz
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, from ahd. Scaz(el)o
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)
- Boris Schatzb. 1867LTJewish sculptor (1866–1932)
- Angelika Schatzb. 1897ILIsraeli painter and art critic (1897-1975)
- Paul Schatzb. 1898DEGerman mathematician
- Willi Schatzb. 1905DESS officer (1905-1985)
- Zahara Schatzb. 1916ILIsraeli artist (1916-1999)
- Albert Schatzb. 1920USAmerican microbiologist (1920-2005)
- Jerry Tuckerb. 1925USnot in their usual nameAmerican child actor (1925-2016)
- Gottfried Schatzb. 1936CHbiochemist (1936-2015)
- Brian Schatzb. 1972USAmerican educator and politician (born 1972)
- Emilia Schatzb. 1979USAmerican lead video game designer
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 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.3K | #5,553 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.3K | #5,151 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.9K | #5,673 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 252 | #5,141 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 215 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 212 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 207 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 183 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 178 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 140 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 96 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 72 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Schatz mean, and where does it come from?
- Schatzmann, a preacher in the synagogue, or a spiritual guide, only found in the district of Under Rhine, Baden 1809. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- What are other forms of the name Schatz?
- In the etymology graph, Scotto is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Schatz?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃæts/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Schatz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Schatz in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schatz.
- How common is the name Schatz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,261 people named Schatz in 2010, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
- How common is Schatz compared with other names?
- In Austria, Schatz is the 374th most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Schatz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schatzThe 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, “Schatz” — the 374th most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.