Schnecke
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: snail, slug
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Schnecke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 208K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 254K
- PLPoland≈1 in 2.1M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 208K (inferred from the name graph)
≈320 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, 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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A sweet spiral-shaped bun or roll of German origin.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Schnecke is read(measured from records)
Schnecke is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German68%
snail, slug
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English28%
A sweet spiral-shaped bun or roll of German origin.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schnecke 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 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 254K | — | Schnecke | 38 |
| AT Austria | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Schnecke | 7 |
| US United States | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 12M | listed | Schnecke | 25 |
| PL Poland | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Schnecke | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Schnecke come from?
- A sweet spiral-shaped bun or roll of German origin. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Schnecke mean?
- In German, snail, slug
- In which country does Schnecke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 315 people named Schnecke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schnecke.
- How common is the name Schnecke?
- Mondonomo estimates about 320 people in Germany have Schnecke as their first surname, about 1 in 254 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Schnecke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schneckeThe 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, “Schnecke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.