Schurer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname: from a place/dwelling name in the Scheuer/Scheune field; includes forms derived from mhd
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɝɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schurer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 44K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M
- NLNetherlands1 in 43K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- 1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Schürer in DE Germany, CH Switzerland, AT Austria.
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)
Toponymic surname: from a place/dwelling name in the Scheuer/Scheune field; includes forms derived from mhd. schiuren 'scheuern, fegen, reinigen' and related house-name usage.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schurer 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 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Schürer | 70 |
| NL Netherlands | 400 | 1 in 43K | 400 | Schurer | 25 |
| US United States | 175 | 1 in 1.9M | 194 | Schurer | 107 |
| CH Switzerland | 119 | 1 in 71K | 119 | Schürer | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 106 | 1 in 2M | 106 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 244K | — | Schürer | 9 |
| DK Denmark | 19 | 1 in 309K | 19 | — | — |
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 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)
- Mathias Schurerb. 1470FRFrench printer
- Fedde Schurerb. 1898NLDutch schoolteacher, journalist, language activist, politician and poet (1898-1968)
- Anton Schurerb. 1925NLDutch military personnel (1925-2018)
- Jan Schurerb. 1931NLDutch politician (1931-1989)
- Bruno Schurerb. 1947DEGerman university teacher
- Ewald Schurerb. 1954DEGerman politician (1954-2017)
- Eddy Schurerb. 1964NLDutch cyclist
- Lisa SchurerDEGerman association football player
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 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 400 | #5,006 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 194 | #88,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 175 | #102,688 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 163 | #114,090 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 106 | #60,636 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Schurer come from?
- Toponymic surname: from a place/dwelling name in the Scheuer/Scheune field; includes forms derived from mhd. schiuren 'scheuern, fegen, reinigen' and related house-name usage. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Schurer?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɝɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Schurer mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname: from a place/dwelling name in the Scheuer/Scheune field; includes forms derived from mhd.
- In which country does Schurer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Schurer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schürer.
- Where is Schurer most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schurer is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 43 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Schurer?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 400 people named Schurer in 2007, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Schurer?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schurerThe 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, “Schurer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.