Schonberg
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Schonberg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 25K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 28K
- SESweden1 in 29K
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 Schonberg 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)
- Record sources
- 251 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Schonberg in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Schoenberg in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada, Schönberg in DE Germany and Schønberg in DK Denmark.
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 across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Schonberg is found
(measured from records)Schonberg 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 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Schönberg | 74 |
| US United States | 1,764as Schoenberg | 1 in 189K | 1.8K | Schoenberg | 251 |
| SE Sweden | 347 | 1 in 29K | 347 | Schonberg | 12 |
| CA Canada | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Schoenberg | 37 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 291K | 30 | Schoenberg | 34 |
| FI Finland | 223 | 1 in 25K | 223 | Schonberg | 6 |
| DK Denmark | 204as Schønberg | 1 in 29K | 204 | Schønberg | 24 |
| NO Norway | 130as Schønberg | 1 in 42K | 130 | Schonberg | 9 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)- Torsten Schonbergb. 1882SESwedish painter (1882–1970)
- Harold Charles Schonbergb. 1915USAmerican writer (1915–2003)
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Schonberg?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Schonberg in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schönberg. After it come United States, Sweden, Canada and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Schonberg most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schonberg is densest in Finland — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Schonberg?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 347 people named Schonberg, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Schonberg?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schonbergThe 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, “Schonberg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.