Schödel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Wahrscheinlich gerundete Form zu Schedel/Schädel; Übername für Menschen mit auffälligem Kopf
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Schödel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 80K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 400Kfew records
- CZCzechia1 in 3.6M
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 Schödel 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)
- Record sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 80K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Schoedel in US United States, CA Canada, ZA South Africa and 2 more and Schodel in AU Australia.
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)Wahrscheinlich gerundete Form zu Schedel/Schädel; Übername für Menschen mit auffälligem Kopf. Bearer count: 489.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Schödel 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 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 80K | listed | Schödel | 54 |
| US United States | 390as Schoedel | 1 in 853K | 418 | Schoedel | 140 |
| AU Australia | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 402K | — | Schodel | 45 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Schoedel | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 848K | — | Schoedel | 5 |
| IE Ireland | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 464K | — | Schoedel | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 3 | 1 in 3.6M | 3 | — | — |
| BZ Belize | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 267K | — | Schoedel | 1 |
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-5 register; 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)Schödel 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, Übername nach dem persönlichen Merkmal Kopf/Schädel; Belegzahl: 489.
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)- Günther Schödelb. 1922DEdiplomat (1922-2015)
- Helmut Schödelb. 1950DEGerman journalist and author
- Henrike Schödelb. 1990DEGerman association football player
- Johannes Schödelresearcher
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #148,542 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Schödel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Wahrscheinlich gerundete Form zu Schedel/Schädel; Übername für Menschen mit auffälligem Kopf.
- In which country does Schödel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Schödel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schödel.
- How common is the name Schödel?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 3 people named Schödel, about 1 in 3.6 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sch%C3%B6delThe 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, “Schödel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.