Schwenk
surname · Latin script
Meaning: pan, tilt
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈʃwɛŋk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schwenk is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
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)
pan, tilt
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Schwenk is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Personenname nach persönlichem Merkmal: zu mhd. swenke ‘schwingend, schlenkernd’; zu swenken/slenkern ‘hin und her schwingen, schwanken’. Bearer count: 4051.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)
- Paul Schwenkb. 1880DEGerman politician (1880-1960)
- Hal Schwenkb. 1890USAmerican baseball player (1890–1955)
- Theodor Schwenkb. 1910DEGerman anthroposophist, engineer and water researcher (1910–1986)
- Karel Švenkb. 1917CZnot in their usual nameCzech entertainer (1917–1945)
- Bud Schwenkb. 1917USAmerican football player (1917-1980)
- Wolfgang Schwenkb. 1931DEGerman politician (1931-2011)
- Rubén Tufiñob. 1970BOnot in their usual nameBolivian footballer
- Tripp Schwenkb. 1971USAmerican swimmer
- Manuel Schwenkb. 1992DEGerman association football player
- Achim Schwenkb. 2000DEGerman physicist
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.5K | #11,557 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #12,662 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,579 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 104 | #10,728 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 67 | #85,160 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 65 | #43,293 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 43 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 43 | #55,885 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 42 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 42 | #56,314 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 39 | #15,299 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 23 | #77,236 |
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
- What does the name Schwenk mean, and where does it come from?
- pan, tilt Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Schwenk?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃwɛŋk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Schwenk have the most bearers?
- Schwenk is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schwenkThe 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, “Schwenk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.