Schroeter
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈʃɹoʊtɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schroeter is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 201K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 56K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 108K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 235 (measured from records)
- 1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Schroeter 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Schroeter | 3 |
| US United States | 1,652 | 1 in 201K | 1.7K | Schroeter | 235 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 255K | 96 | Schroeter | 45 |
| AU Australia | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Schroeter | 69 |
| CA Canada | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Schroeter | 40 |
| CH Switzerland | 151 | 1 in 56K | 151 | Schroeter | 10 |
| HN Honduras | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Schroeter | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Schroeter | 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; 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)
- Rebecca Schroeterb. 1751Love interest of Joseph Haydn
- Franz Heinrich Schroeterb. 1835DEGerman jurist (1835-1911)
- Jens Fredrik Schroeterb. 1857NONorwegian astronomer (1857–1927)
- Georg Schroeterb. 1869PLGerman chemist (1869–1943)
- Karl-Ernst Schroeterb. 1912PLGerman U-boat commander
- Alexej Ivanovich Schroeterb. 1918RURussian botanist (1918-2002)
- Reginald Schroeterb. 1921CACanadian ice hockey player (1921-2002)
- Renate Schroeterb. 1939DEGerman actress (1939-2017)
- Werner Schroeterb. 1945DEGerman film director and screenwriter (1945–2010)
- Klaus R. Schroeterb. 1959DEGerman sociologist
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 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #17,151 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,170 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,380 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 151 | #7,915 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 96 | #33,994 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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)
- 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
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 Schroeter?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃɹoʊtɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Schroeter have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.4 thousand people named Schroeter in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schroeter.
- Where is Schroeter most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schroeter is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 56 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Schroeter?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,652 people named Schroeter in 2010, about 1 in 201 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Schroeter?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schroeterThe 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, “Schroeter”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.