Schnuer

surname · Latin script

Schnuer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 1.5M(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 172Kas Schnur
  • UYUruguay1 in 199Kas Schnur

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 Schnuer 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)

1,937 named Schnur, 2010

Sources
134 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SchnurLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Schnur in DE Germany, US United States, NL Netherlands and 1 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Schnuer 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.

Where Schnuer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,937as Schnur1 in 172K1.9KSchnur134
BR Brazil72as Schnur1 in 2.9M72——
DE Germany≈52 est.≈1 in 1.5MlistedSchnur101
NL Netherlands24as Schnur1 in 720K24Schnur10
CH Switzerland21as Schnur1 in 400K21Schnur8
UY Uruguay17as Schnur1 in 199K17——
BE Belgium10as Schnur1 in 1.2M10—3

1,937 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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)

Schnuer is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In gsw, daughter-in-law (son's wife)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In hrx, cord, string

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Schnuer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Schnuer have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Schnur, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Schnuer?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,937 people named Schnur in 2010, about 1 in 172 thousand residents.

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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, “Schnuer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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