Schneller
surname · Latin script
Meaning: comparative degree of schnell
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Schneller is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 23K(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 28Kfew records
- DEGermany≈1 in 38K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 216 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)comparative degree of schnell
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Schneller 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 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Schneller | 92 |
| US United States | 912 | 1 in 365K | 1.2K | Schneller | 216 |
| CH Switzerland | 367 | 1 in 23K | 367 | Schneller | 32 |
| AT Austria | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Schneller | 49 |
| FR France | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 422K | 18 | — | 1 |
| HU Hungary | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Schneller | 25 |
| DK Denmark | 38 | 1 in 154K | 38 | — | — |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)Schneller is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, wohl Berufsname zu mhd. sneller 'Läufer; Bogenschütze; Auf- und Ablader; Gaukler' oder Übername zu mhd. snellen 'schnalzen; eilen'; Bearer count: 995.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In Luxembourgish, feminine dative of schnell
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, glazb. pov. u instrumentalnoj glazbi 18. st. melodijski ukras srodan, a često i identičan s pralltrillerom
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)- Johann Ludwig Schnellerb. 1820DEGerman teacher (1820-1896)
- Christian Schnellerb. 1831ATAustrian philologist, poet, folklorist and writer (1831–1908)
- Ludwig Schnellerb. 1879CHSwiss politician and lawyer (1879-1936)
- Ernst Schnellerb. 1890DEGerman politician (1890-1944)
- Lajos Reményi-Schnellerb. 1892HUHungarian politician (1892-1946)
- Heribert Schnellerb. 1901DEGerman astronomer (1901-1967)
- John Schnellerb. 1911USNational Football League player (1911-1978)
- Otniel Schnellerb. 1952ILIsraeli politician
- Oliver Schnellerb. 1966DEGerman composer
- Lukas Schnellerb. 2001DEGerman association football player
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,053 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,727 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 912 | #26,695 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 367 | #3,580 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 38 | #13,416 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 18 | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
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 Schneller mean, and where does it come from?
- comparative degree of schnell Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Schneller have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Schneller in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schneller.
- Where is Schneller most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schneller is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Schneller?
- In the United States, the national register counted 912 people named Schneller in 2010, about 1 in 365 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Schneller?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schnellerThe 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, “Schneller”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.