Schneeweiss
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of schneeweiß (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Schneeweiss is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 243K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 525K
- USUnited States1 in 2.7M
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 Schneeweiss 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
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 243K (inferred from the name graph)
≈810 named Schneeweiß, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Schneeweiss in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Schneeweiß in DE Germany.
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)Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of schneeweiß
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Schneeweiss is found
(measured from records)Schneeweiss 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 | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Schneeweiß | 62 |
| AT Austria | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Schneeweiss | 45 |
| US United States | 125 | 1 in 2.7M | 135 | Schneeweiss | 38 |
| CZ Czechia | 44 | 1 in 243K | 44 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 16 | 1 in 525K | 16 | Schneeweiss | 5 |
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 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Karl Schneeweisb. 1745ATnot in their usual nameAustrian drawer
- Amalie Joachimb. 1839SInot in their usual nameGerman singer (1839-1899)
- Karol Schneeweissb. 1953DEGerman film director (1953-2015)
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Schneeweiss mean, and where does it come from?
- Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of schneeweiß Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Schneeweiss?
- Mondonomo estimates about 810 people named Schneeweiß in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Austria, United States, Czechia and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Schneeweiss most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schneeweiss is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 243 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Schneeweiss?
- In the United States, the national register counted 125 people named Schneeweiss 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/schneeweissThe 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, “Schneeweiss”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.