Schaffel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃafəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schaffel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 219K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 601K
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 Schaffel 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 219K (inferred from the name graph)
217 people
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Schäffel in DE Germany, AT Austria and Schaeffel in CH Switzerland.
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)
Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type. Bearer count: 58.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schaffel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 217 | 1 in 976K | 217 | — | — |
| US United States | 139 | 1 in 2.4M | 179 | Schaffel | 136 |
| DE Germany | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 947K | — | Schäffel | 27 |
| AT Austria | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 219K | — | Schäffel | 6 |
| IT Italy | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Schaffel | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 345K | — | Schaeffel | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 931K | — | Schaffel | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 601K | — | Schaffel | 1 |
217 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Schaffel 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.
In German, diminutive of Schaff: small tub, small vat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Marla Schaffelb. 1968USAmerican actress
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 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 217 | #34,383 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 179 | #106,101 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 175 | #96,480 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 139 | #123,796 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- Where does the name Schaffel come from?
- Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type. Bearer count: 58. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- How do you pronounce Schaffel?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃafəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Schaffel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type.
- In which country does Schaffel have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 217 people named Schaffel, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Schaffel?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 217 people named Schaffel, about 1 in 976 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schaffelThe 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, “Schaffel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.