Schuetze
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘archer’ (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Schuetze is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 630Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M
- DEGermany≈1 in 6.8Kas Schütze
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 Schuetze 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
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 575K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 named Schütze, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Schuetze in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Schutze in ZA South Africa, IN India, LR Liberia and 1 more and Schütze 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
(measured from records)‘archer’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Schuetze is found
(measured from records)Schuetze 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 | #441 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Schütze | 104 |
| BR Brazil | — | 451as Schutze | 1 in 469K | 451 | — | 1 |
| IN India | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 7.7M | — | Schutze | 2 |
| US United States | — | 179 | 1 in 1.9M | 537 | Schuetze | 142 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 450K | — | Schutze | 6 |
| LR Liberia | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Schutze | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 118as Schütze | 1 in 71K | 118 | Schuetze | 7 |
| DK Denmark | — | 101as Schütze | 1 in 58K | 101 | — | 1 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 575K | — | Schuetze | 1 |
| BB Barbados | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Schutze | 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Johann Jakob SchuetzeDEpublisher in Berlin (fl. until 1750)
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Schuetze mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘archer’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Schuetze?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Schütze in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Brazil, India, United States and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Schuetze?
- In the United States, the national register counted 179 people named Schuetze in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
- How common is Schuetze compared with other names?
- In Germany, Schuetze is the 441st most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Schuetze?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schuetzeThe 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, “Schuetze” — the 441st most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.