Schmucker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: comparative degree of schmuck
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Schmucker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 32K
- USUnited States1 in 77K
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 Schmucker 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 235 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
4,314 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Schmuecker in LS Lesotho.
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)comparative degree of schmuck
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Schmucker 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 | — | 4,314 | 1 in 77K | 4.6K | Schmucker | 235 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Schmucker | 91 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 321K | 5 | Schmucker | 11 |
| DK Denmark | — | 182 | 1 in 32K | 182 | — | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 480K | — | Schmucker | 5 |
| LS Lesotho | #825 | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Schmuecker | 1 |
| BZ Belize | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Schmucker | 2 |
4,314 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Andreas Schmuckerb. 1575CH* um 1575 Stein am Rhein, † 23.11.1650 Stein am Rhein; Glasmaler, Maler und Glaser. Schüler von Marx Grimm in Schaffhausen; Schmuker, Andreas
- Johann Leberecht Schmuckerb. 1712DEGerman author
- Samuel Simon Schmuckerb. 1799USUnited States Lutheran clergyman and theologian
- Samuel Mosheim Schmuckerb. 1823USAmerican historical writer and popular biographer (1823-1863)
- Beale M. Schmuckerb. 1827USUnited States Lutheran clergyman and liturgical scholar
- Josef Schmuckerb. 1882DEGerman civil servant in the agricultural administration (1882-1971)
- Theodor Schmuckerb. 1894DEbotanist (1894-1970)
- Josef Schmuckerb. 1910DEGerman philosopher and theologian (1910-1997)
- František Schmuckerb. 1940SKCzech footballer (1940-2004)
- Robert Schmuckerb. 1943DE1943- German university teacher
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.6K | #7,082 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.3K | #7,695 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.4K | #8,949 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 5 | #230,412 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Schmucker mean, and where does it come from?
- comparative degree of schmuck Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Schmucker have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Schmucker, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schmucker.
- How common is the name Schmucker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,314 people named Schmucker in 2010, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
- How common is Schmucker compared with other names?
- In Lesotho, Schmucker is the 825th most common surname of 5,753 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schmuckerThe 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, “Schmucker” — the 825th most common surname in Lesotho. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.