Schanze
surname · Latin script
Meaning: entrenchment, redoubt (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈʃantsə/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Schanze is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 61K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M
- CZCzechia1 in 11M
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 Schanze itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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
- 93 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Barbados, est.
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.
How to pronounce Schanze
- German:/ˈʃantsə/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)entrenchment, redoubt
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Schanze is found
(measured from records)Schanze 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 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Schanze | 75 |
| US United States | 143 | 1 in 2.3M | 155 | Schanze | 93 |
| NL Netherlands | 44as Rampart | 1 in 393K | 44 | Schanze | 7 |
| BE Belgium | 27as Rampart | 1 in 434K | 27 | — | 4 |
| CA Canada | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Schanze | 2 |
| BB Barbados | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Schanze | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)- Michael Schanzeb. 1947DEGerman singer and television presenter
- Eberhard Schanzeb. 1949DEGerman diplomat and ambassador
- Jens Schanzeb. 1971DEGerman film director
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Schanze mean, and where does it come from?
- entrenchment, redoubt Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Schanze?
- In the etymology graph, Sconce and Schans are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Schanze?
- In German /ˈʃantsə/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Schanze?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Schanze in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schanze. After it come United States, Netherlands, Belgium and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Schanze?
- In the United States, the national register counted 143 people named Schanze in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Schanze?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schanzeThe 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, “Schanze”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.