Schwaller
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈʃwɔɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schwaller is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Swiss German Schwaller.
- USUnited States1 in 588K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 10K
- FRFrance≈1 in 80K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈840 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Swiss German Schwaller.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schwaller 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 80K | 121 | Schwaller | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 807 | 1 in 10K | 807 | Schwaller | 48 |
| US United States | 566 | 1 in 588K | 566 | Schwaller | 159 |
| DE Germany | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 204K | — | Schwaller | 51 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 952K | 16 | Schwaller | 27 |
| AT Austria | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 277K | — | Schwaller | 7 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 484K | — | Schwaller | 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); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- René Adolphe Schwaller de Lubiczb. 1887FRFrench egyptologist (1887–1961)
- Urs Schwallerb. 1952CHSwiss politician
- Christof Schwallerb. 1966CHSwiss curler
- Andreas Schwallerb. 1970CHSwiss male curler and coach
- Anita Schwallerb. 1975CHSwiss snowboarder
- Ursula Schwallerb. 1976CHSwiss athlete
- Briar Hürlimannb. 1993CHnot in their usual nameSwiss female curler
- Yannick Schwallerb. 1995CHSwiss male curler
- Xenia Schwallerb. 2002CHSwiss female curler
- Kim Schwallerb. 2003CHSwiss male curler
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 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 807 | #1,509 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 566 | #38,948 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 561 | #37,374 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 529 | #43,886 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 187 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 183 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 148 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 140 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 134 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 129 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 121 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 110 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Schwaller mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Swiss German Schwaller. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Schwaller?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃwɔɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Schwaller have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 844 people named Schwaller in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schwaller.
- Where is Schwaller most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schwaller is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Schwaller?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 807 people named Schwaller in 2024, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schwallerThe 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, “Schwaller”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.