Scheiner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: s. SCHEIN, Schien-
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈʃaɪnɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Scheiner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 70K(inferred from the name graph)
- ILIsrael1 in 15Kas שיינר
- USUnited States1 in 171Kas Shiner
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 Scheiner 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 242 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)
1,949 named Shiner, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled שיינר in IL Israel, LB Lebanon and Shiner in RO Romania.
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)
s. SCHEIN, Schien-
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Scheiner 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,949as Shiner | 1 in 171K | 1.9K | Scheiner | 242 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Scheiner | 81 |
| RO Romania | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Shiner | 3 |
| IL Israel | 586as שיינר | 1 in 15K | 586 | שיינר | 19 |
| BR Brazil | 213 | 1 in 994K | 213 | — | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Scheiner | 28 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | שיינר | 1 |
1,949 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling shiner. 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); 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)
- Peter Scheinerb. 1554DE1554-1603; Superintendent in Oschatz
- Josef Scheinerb. 1798AT(1798-1867)
- Jakob Scheinerb. 1820DEGerman watercolour painter and draughtsman (1820-1911)
- Franz Scheinerb. 1847DEGerman lithographer
- Wilhelm Scheinerb. 1852DEGerman painter and photographer (1852-1922)
- Julius Scheinerb. 1858DEGerman astronomer (1858-1913)
- Josef Scheinerb. 1861CZCzech politician, attorney, sports official and publicist (1861-1932)
- Artuš Scheinerb. 1863CZCzech illustrator (1863-1938)
- Yitzchok Scheinerb. 1922USrabbi (1922-2021)
- Elliot Scheinerb. 1947USRecording Engineer/Producer
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 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,686 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,790 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,871 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 213 | #34,903 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- 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
- What does the name Scheiner mean, and where does it come from?
- s. SCHEIN, Schien- Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Scheiner?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃaɪnɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Scheiner have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Shiner, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Scheiner?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 213 people named Scheiner, about 1 in 994 thousand 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/scheinerThe 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, “Scheiner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.