Schoenfelder
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈʃoʊnfɛɫdɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schoenfelder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 319K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 20Kas Schönfelder
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 335K
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 Schoenfelder 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)
- Sources
- 199 (measured from records)
- 1 in 319K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 named Schönfelder, est.
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Schönfelder in DE Germany, AT Austria and Schonfelder in CN China.
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)
Schoenfelder 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 | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Schönfelder | 89 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 447K | — | Schonfelder | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,042 | 1 in 319K | 1.1K | Schoenfelder | 199 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 335K | 15 | Schoenfelder | 20 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Schönfelder | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 53as Schönfelder | 1 in 159K | 53 | Schoenfelder | 3 |
| BB Barbados | #855 | — | — | — | Schoenfelder | 2 |
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 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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)
- Eberhard Bruno Willy Schoenfelderb. 1892botanical collector (1892 - 1969)
- Friedrich Schoenfelderb. 1916DEGerman actor (1916-2011)
- Johanna Schoenfelderb. 1945DEGerman painter
- Olivier Schoenfelderb. 1977FRFrench ice dancer
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)
Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,772 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,137 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 973 | #24,162 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 11 | #134,717 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- How do you pronounce Schoenfelder?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃoʊnfɛɫdɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Schoenfelder have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Schönfelder in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Schoenfelder most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schoenfelder is densest in the United States — about 1 in 319 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Schoenfelder?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,042 people named Schoenfelder in 2010, about 1 in 319 thousand residents.
- How common is Schoenfelder compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Schoenfelder is the 855th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schoenfelderThe 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, “Schoenfelder” — the 855th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.