Schwinn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Familienname zu ahd. *swind usw
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈʃwɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schwinn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 305K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 82K
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
- 211 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Familienname zu ahd. *swind usw. 'stark, ungestüm, heftig, geschwind'; zeigt n/nn- bzw. Auslautvariation. Bearer count: 1155.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Schwinn is read(measured from records)
Schwinn is one spelling over 2 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.
- English61%
US bicycle co.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German23%
Familienname zu ahd. *swind usw. 'stark, ungestüm, heftig, geschwind'; zeigt n/nn- bzw. Auslautvariation. Bearer count: 1155.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Varianz nd/nn; Typ Schwinn, 1155 Belege. Vermutlich zu Schwind-/Schwind-Formen; die Karte zeigt die Schreibvarianten um -nd/-nn.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Schwinn 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 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 34K | listed | Schwinn | 103 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Schwinn | 1 |
| US United States | 1,091 | 1 in 305K | 1.1K | Schwinn | 211 |
| BR Brazil | 411 | 1 in 515K | 411 | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 318K | — | Schwinn | 4 |
| AT Austria | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 185K | — | Schwinn | 13 |
| IE Ireland | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Schwinn | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Schwinn | 14 |
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; the dfa-band-2 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
- Ignaz Schwinnb. 1860DEFounder of Schwinn Bicycle Company
- Andreas Schwinnb. 1920DEGerman oboist (1920–2008)
- Gaston Schwinnb. 1946FRFrench astrologer and journalist
- Florian Schwinnb. 1954DEGerman journalist and radio host
- Frank Schwinnb. 1967ATAustrian guitarist
- Julia Schwinnb. 1985DEGerman association football player
- Clara Schwinnb. 1996DEGerman association football player
- Laura Schwinnb. 1999DEGerman association football player
- Anima Schwinnactor
- F.J. Schwinnbotanist
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #22,971 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,333 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 939 | #24,873 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 411 | #20,286 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 2 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Schwinn?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃwɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Schwinn mean?
- Recorded meaning: Familienname zu ahd. *swind usw.
- In which country does Schwinn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Schwinn in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schwinn.
- How common is the name Schwinn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,091 people named Schwinn in 2010, about 1 in 305 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schwinnThe 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, “Schwinn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.