Schedel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Übername für Menschen mit auffälligem Kopf; teils auch Berufsname zu mhd
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃeːdəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schedel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 64K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.7M
- LSLesotho≈1 in 104K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Übername für Menschen mit auffälligem Kopf; teils auch Berufsname zu mhd. schedel 'Holzgefäß/Trockenmaß' (Kleinböttcher). Bearer count: 585.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schedel 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 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 64K | listed | Schedel | 75 |
| US United States | 123 | 1 in 2.7M | 127 | Schedel | 92 |
| AT Austria | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Schedel | 14 |
| IT Italy | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Schedel | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Schedel | 4 |
| LS Lesotho | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Schedel | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | Schedel | 6 |
| NO Norway | 10 | 1 in 547K | 10 | — | 2 |
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: the dfa-band-5 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Schedel is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Übername nach dem persönlichen Merkmal Kopf/Schädel; Belegzahl: 585.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, from Schädel 'skull'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Dutch, skull
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)
- Hermann Schedel seniorb. 1410DEGerman physician (1410-1485)
- Hartmann Schedelb. 1440DEGerman historian, cartographer, physician and humanist (1440–1514)
- Hannes Schedelb. 1960DEGerman doctor
- Susanne Schedelb. 1973DEGerman germanist, journalist, writer
- Christina Schedelb. 1994DEGerman association football player
- Elizabeth SchedelUSAmerican socialite
- Jens SchedelDEDr.-Ing. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 2018
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 127 | #136,807 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 127 | #124,872 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 123 | #136,449 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11 | #56,728 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10 | #56,120 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Schedel?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃeːdəl/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Schedel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Übername für Menschen mit auffälligem Kopf; teils auch Berufsname zu mhd.
- In which country does Schedel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Schedel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schedel.
- How common is the name Schedel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 123 people named Schedel in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schedelThe 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, “Schedel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.