Schwarzkopf
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: German surname from a personal characteristic: 'black head' (referring to dark hair or a dark-complexioned head). Bearer count: 2015
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃʋaɐ̯tskɔp͡f/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schwarzkopf is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- ARArgentina
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
medieval German and Jewish nickname for a black-haired person
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Schwarzkopf is read(measured from records)
Schwarzkopf is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German45%
German surname from a personal characteristic: 'black head' (referring to dark hair or a dark-complexioned head). Bearer count: 2015.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
name for someone with dark hair, from Ger. schwarz black, dark (see Schwarz) + kopf head (see Kopf). Var.: Schwartzkopf. Cogn.: Low Ger.: Schwartekopp. Vars.: Schwibbe, Schwope. Dims.: Schwippl. Low Ger.: Schwippke. Scobie Scots: habitation name from a lost place in the for¬ mer county of Perths., so called from Gael, sgolbach thorny place.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
someone with black hair
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English43%
medieval German and Jewish nickname for a black-haired person
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Norman, US general
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish5.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Schwarzkopf in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Maria Lemméb. 1880DEnot in their usual nameAustrian painter (1880-1943)
- Paul Schwarzkopfb. 1886ATAustrian entrepreneur (1886–1970)
- Richard Schwarzkopfb. 1893DEGerman graphic designer (1893–1963)
- Norman Schwarzkopfb. 1895USUnited States Army general and first superintendent of the New Jersey State Police (1895–1958)
- Heinrich Schwarzkopfb. 1912DEGerman amateur wrestler (1912-1998)
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopfb. 1915ATGerman opera soprano (1915–2006)
- Klaus Schwarzkopfb. 1922DEGerman actor (1922–1991)
- Anton Schwarzkopfb. 1924DEGerman roller coaster designer (1924–2001)
- Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.b. 1934USUnited States Army general (1934–2012)
- Lilli Schwarzkopfb. 1983DEGerman heptathlete
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 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 708 | #34,480 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 695 | #32,960 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 648 | #33,248 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 94 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 49 | #18,963 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 40 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 31 | #40,659 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 31 | #13,096 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 21 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 21 | #88,081 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 18 | #88,854 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15 | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- 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
- Where does the name Schwarzkopf come from?
- medieval German and Jewish nickname for a black-haired person Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Schwarzkopf?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃʋaɐ̯tskɔp͡f/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Schwarzkopf mean?
- In German, German surname from a personal characteristic: 'black head' (referring to dark hair or a dark-complexioned head). Bearer count: 2015.
- In which country does Schwarzkopf have the most bearers?
- Schwarzkopf is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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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, “Schwarzkopf”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.