Schoch

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Schoch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Name of Hebraic origin, soq = Schenkel, since 1700 and 1800.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 18K
  • USUnited States1 in 106K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,300 people, est.

Sources
269 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Schöch in AT Austria.

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)

Name of Hebraic origin, soq = Schenkel, since 1700 and 1800.

Sources 1

  • The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Schoch 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 Schoch is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany—≈4,300 est.≈1 in 18KlistedSchoch126
US United States—3,1411 in 106K3.1KSchoch269
CH Switzerland#2262,7421 in 3.1K2.7KSchoch75
BY Belarus—≈900 est.≈1 in 11K—Schoch1
FR France—≈610 est.≈1 in 111K64—5
AT Austria—≈110 est.≈1 in 81K—Schöch21
BZ Belize#424≈23 est.≈1 in 18K—Schoch1

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; the dfa-band-5 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Schoch is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Switzerland, Canada

    Also written Schöch

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, Switzerland

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Schöch

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Schöch

  • Russian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Шох, Shokh, Shoh, Schöch

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Schoch 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, Berufsname: zu mhd./mnd. ackerman 'Ackerbauer' (Bauer/Landarbeiter); 1912 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

  • In German, Berufsname: vermutlich zu einem landwirtschaftlichen Ruf-/Berufsnamen im alemannischen Raum; Bearer counts: 206 (FR), 1425 (CH), 26 (AT).

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

  • In German, Berufsübername für einen Bauern; zu mhd. schoc(k), schoch „Haufen“ bzw. schoche „aufgeschichteter Heuhaufen“. Bearer count: 1912.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

  • In German, "Heuhaufen", schwäb. "ausgelassener Mensdi". Schöch, |le, lin; Schoch(mann), Tschodi- ner. Nd. Schock(e) (x SKOG); ostd. Schoch-, Schöch- s. Zschacke

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In German, 'haystack'; also 'frivolous person'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

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)

1400160018002000Johannes Schoch, b. 1550Heinrich Gustav Schoch, b. 1841Karl Schoch, b. 1863Otto Schoch, b. 1934Robert M. Schoch, b. 1949Alexander Schoch, b. 1954Anton Shokh, b. 1960Rainer Schoch, b. 1970Simon Schoch, b. 1978Philipp Schoch, b. 1979

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Schoch
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.1K#10,260
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.8K#10,851
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.8K#10,515
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20242.7K#301
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951101—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197191—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194180—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190178—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198176—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196176—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192174—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193171—

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)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Schoch mean, and where does it come from?
Name of Hebraic origin, soq = Schenkel, since 1700 and 1800. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
In which country does Schoch have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Schoch in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schoch.
Where is Schoch most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schoch is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 3.1 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Schoch?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,141 people named Schoch in 2010, about 1 in 106 thousand residents.
How common is Schoch compared with other names?
In Switzerland, Schoch is the 226th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Schoch” — the 226th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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