Schindler
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: ‘maker or layer of shingles (wooden roof-tiles)’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃɪndlə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schindler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 4.2K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 3.6Kas Chandler
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 Schindler 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 517 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈260,000 named Chandler, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Chandler in US United States, CN China.
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)
‘maker or layer of shingles (wooden roof-tiles)’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Schindler is read(measured from records)
Schindler is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English56%
‘maker or layer of shingles (wooden roof-tiles)’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- German30%
Berufsname: aus mhd. schindel, mnd. schindele 'Schindel'; bezeichnet den Schindelmacher bzw. den mit Schindeln arbeitenden Dachdecker.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Berufsname zu schindeln/Schindel; 'Schindelmacher' (im Text: 11863 Träger).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schindler 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 | — | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Chandler | 20 |
| US United States | — | 79,186as Chandler | 1 in 4.2K | 79K | Chandler | 517 |
| DE Germany | #151 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | listed | Schindler | 194 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 268 | Schindler | 262 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Schindler | 13 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 3 | Schindler | 191 |
| CH Switzerland | #283 | 2,011 | 1 in 4.2K | 2K | Schindler | 71 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 38as Chandler | 1 in 2.7K | 38 | — | 2 |
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-5 register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
Schindler 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.
Man who uses shingles for roof cover.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
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)
- Anton Schindlerb. 1795CZAssociate, secretary, and early biographer of Ludwig van Beethoven (1795-1864)
- Emil Jacob Schindlerb. 1842ATAustrian landscape painter and the father of Alma Mahler. (1842-1892)
- Osmar Schindlerb. 1867DEGerman painter belonging to the Dresden Academy school of artists. (1867-1927)
- Alma Mahler-Werfelb. 1879ATnot in their usual nameAustrian composer, art collector, author, editor, and socialite (1879-1964)
- Rudolph Michael Schindlerb. 1887ATAmerican architect (1887–1953)
- Emilie Schindlerb. 1907DESudetenland-German who helped save lives during the Holocaust, wife of Oskar Schindler (1907-2001)
- Oskar Schindlerb. 1908DEGerman industrialist and Holocaust rescuer (1908–1974)
- Monika Schindlerb. 1938DEGerman film editor
- Rotraud Schindlerb. 1940DEGerman actress and comedian
- Gerhard Schindlerb. 1952DEGerman jurist
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 38 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.8K | #3,624 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.6K | #3,407 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.3K | #3,728 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 2K | #476 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 268 | #17,633 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Schindler mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘maker or layer of shingles (wooden roof-tiles)’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Schindler?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɪndlə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Schindler have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 258 thousand people named Chandler in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Schindler?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 2,011 people named Schindler in 2024, about 1 in 4.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Schindler compared with other names?
- In Germany, Schindler is the 151st most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Schindler” — the 151st most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.