Schams
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Schams is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 700K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 1.3M
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 700K (inferred from the name graph)
234 people, 2010
Reference-verified
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schams 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 234 | 1 in 1.4M | 266 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | — |
| EG Egypt | — | — | — | Schams | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | — | 5 | — | — |
234 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); MVČR — living population register 2017; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
- Ferenc Schamsb. 1780HUCzech-German agronomist (1780-1839)
- Jiří Schamsb. 1972CZCzech war veteran (1972-2015)
- Sandra Schamsb. 1984DEassociation 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 266 | #77,676 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 234 | #80,926 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 224 | #79,115 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 8 | #91,300 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 8 | #19,113 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Schams have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 234 people named Schams, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Schams most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schams is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 700 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Schams?
- In the United States, the national register counted 234 people named Schams in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Schams?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schamsThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Schams”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.