Schoenefeld

surname · Latin script

Schoenefeld is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 101Kas Schönefeld(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States≈1 in 2.9M
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 4.5M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Schoenefeld 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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈800 named Schönefeld, est.

Sources
66 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.9M (inferred from the name graph)

United States, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SchönefeldLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Schönefeld 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

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

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Schoenefeld 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 Schoenefeld is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈800 est.≈1 in 101K—Schönefeld51
US United States≈120 est.≈1 in 2.9MlistedSchoenefeld66
ZA South Africa≈13 est.≈1 in 4.5M—Schoenefeld1
GB United Kingdom≈6 est.≈1 in 10M—Schoenefeld1
CA Canada≈3 est.≈1 in 11M—Schoenefeld5

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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Schoenefeld is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Schønefeld

17 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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 2 sources across 1 country.

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

Reference works 1

  • 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

In which country does Schoenefeld have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 796 people named Schönefeld in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Schoenefeld?
Mondonomo estimates about 800 people in Germany have Schönefeld as their first surname, about 1 in 101 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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

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