Schanz
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈʃæns/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schanz is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- ARArgentina
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
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)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)- Pauline Schanzb. 1828DEGerman translator (1828-1913)
- Paul Schanzb. 1841DEGerman theologian
- Martin Schanzb. 1842DEGerman classical philologist (1842–1914)
- Frida Schanzb. 1859DEGerman author and literary editor (1859-1944)
- Alfred Schanzb. 1868DEGerman orthopedist
- Oskar Schanzb. 1868DEGerman politician (1868–1920)
- August Schanzb. 1871DEGerman politician (1871-1935)
- Charley Schanzb. 1919USAmerican baseball player
- Heidi Schanzb. 1973USAmerican actress
- Katja Schanzb. 1986DEGerman 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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,666 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,906 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,737 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 221 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 114 | #57,408 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 113 | #10,038 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 82 | #6,673 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 17 | #100,824 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 13 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 13 | #117,210 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 11 | #114,632 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10 | #57,163 |
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
- How do you pronounce Schanz?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃæns/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Schanz have the most bearers?
- Schanz is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Schanz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schanzThe 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, “Schanz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.