Schweighöfer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname: from a farm/courtyard name with Schweig; bearer count: 193
/ʃvaeghøfɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schweighöfer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 224K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- CZCzechia1 in 5.4M
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 Schweighöfer 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)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 224K (inferred from the name graph)
≈360 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Schweighoefer in US United States, AT Austria, ZA South Africa.
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 farm/courtyard name with Schweig; bearer count: 193.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schweighöfer 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 | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 224K | — | Schweighöfer | 35 |
| US United States | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 22M | listed | Schweighoefer | 17 |
| AT Austria | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 830K | — | Schweighoefer | 5 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 6.2M | — | Schweighoefer | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Schweighöfer is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Zu Schweig-/Schwaig- + Hof/ -höfer; zeigt die ö/o- und e/a-Variation. Bearer count: 193/245.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Wohnstättenname zu mhd. hof; zeigt ö/o-Variation. Schweiz: 1+13.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joachim Schweighöferb. 1936DEGerman actor (1936–2023)
- Rolf Schweighöferb. 1939DEGerman association football player
- Michael Schweighöferb. 1952DEGerman actor
- Gitta Schweighöferb. 1954DEGerman actress
- Kerstin Schweighöferb. 1960DEGerman journalist and author
- Götz Schweighöferb. 1960DEGerman actor
- Matthias Schweighöferb. 1981DEGerman actor
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 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #189,985 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Schweighöfer mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname: from a farm/courtyard name with Schweig; bearer count: 193. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Schweighöfer?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃvaeghøfɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Schweighöfer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 359 people named Schweighöfer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schweighöfer.
- How common is the name Schweighöfer?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3 people named Schweighöfer in 2024, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schweigh%C3%B6ferThe 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, “Schweighöfer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.