Schenker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Occupational surname: cupbearer/server, giver of drinks
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈʃɛŋkɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schenker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 9.9Kas שנקר(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 4.3K
- LVLatvia≈1 in 38Kas שנקר
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 Schenker 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
17,713 named Shankar
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled שנקר in IN India, IL Israel, US United States and 2 more.
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)
Occupational surname: cupbearer/server, giver of drinks.
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)
Schenker 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 17,713as Shankar | 1 in 75K | 1.1M | שנקר | 22 |
| US United States | 2,130as Shankar | 1 in 156K | 3.3K | שנקר | 28 |
| CH Switzerland | 1,941 | 1 in 4.3K | 1.9K | Schenker | 4 |
| IL Israel | 875as שנקר | 1 in 9.9K | 875 | שנקר | 25 |
| RO Romania | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | שנקר | 2 |
| LV Latvia | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 2 | שנקר | 2 |
17,713 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling shankar. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; This page discusses the most common names in India based on an analysis of election and census data, published by Housen; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Schenker is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, agent noun of schenken: donor, benefactor, giver
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Berufsname zu mhd. schenker 'Zutrinker/propinator'; belegt 853 Tokens. Die Platte zeigt die Varianz -Ø/-er sowie Schenker(t), Schencker, Schänker.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Berufsname zu mnd. schenker ‘Wirt; Geber, Schenker’; 853 Träger. Zeigt die agentive/berufsbezeichnende Erweiterung mit -er.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, from schenken 'to pour out, serve'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Dutch, a cupbearer, one who pours drinks for a high-ranking person
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)
- Gottfried Schenkerb. 1842CHSwiss businessman (1842-1901)
- Heinrich Schenkerb. 1868ATAustrian music theorist (1868-1935)
- Zoltán Ozoray Schenkerb. 1880HUHungarian fencer
- Karl Schenkerb. 1886GBAustrian photographer, illustrator and draughtsman (1886–1954)
- Rudolf Schenkerb. 1948DEGerman guitarist
- Silvia Schenkerb. 1954CHSwiss politician
- Michael Schenkerb. 1955DEGerman guitarist
- Barbara Schenkerb. 1966DEGerman musician
- David Schenkerb. 1968USAmerican defense analyst and diplomat
- Mateus Solanob. 1981BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian actor
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.9K | #499 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #22,319 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,053 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,056 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Schenker mean, and where does it come from?
- Occupational surname: cupbearer/server, giver of drinks. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- How do you pronounce Schenker?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃɛŋkɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Schenker have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Shankar, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Schenker most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schenker is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 4.3 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Schenker?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,941 people named Schenker in 2024, about 1 in 4.3 thousand 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/schenkerThe 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, “Schenker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.