Schofield
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Schofield is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: person from Schofield, a northern English place-name meaning ‘field with a hut’.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 5.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 7.8K
- CACanada≈1 in 16K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 394 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
person from Schofield, a northern English place-name meaning ‘field with a hut’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schofield 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Schofield | 9 |
| US United States | — | 12,790 | 1 in 26K | 13K | Schofield | 394 |
| GB United Kingdom | #470 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 20K | Schofield | 251 |
| AU Australia | #746 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | 1 | Schofield | 180 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Schofield | 179 |
| NZ New Zealand | #685 | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Schofield | 95 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Schofield is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, dweller by a field with a hut; from ON skáli + OE feld; first attested John de Scholefeld 1343 WhC (La)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, from any of various minor places, in Lancs, and elsewhere, named from ME sc(h)ole hut (see Scholes) + feld pasture, open country (see Field). Var. (of 2): Shot. Patrs.: Vars.:
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Irish, A north of England toponymic found in east Galway distinct from, but sometimes confused with, Scuffle
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- John McAllister Schofieldb. 1831USUnited States Army Medal of Honor recipient and Union Army general (1831–1906)
- Walter Elmer Schofieldb. 1867USAmerican painter (1867–1944)
- Frank Schofieldb. 1889CACanadian missionary
- David Schofieldb. 1951GBBritish actor
- Dick Schofieldb. 1962USAmerican baseball player
- Phillip Schofieldb. 1962GBBritish broadcaster and television personality
- Annabel Schofieldb. 1963GBWelsh actor and model
- Kendall Coyneb. 1992USnot in their usual nameAmerican ice hockey player
- Bobby Schofieldb. 1993GBEnglish actor
- Admiral Schofieldb. 1997GBAmerican basketball player (born 1997)
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)
Attested in 28 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 20K | #364 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 13K | #2,822 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 12K | #2,686 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 12K | #2,844 |
| GB United Kingdom | BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| 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
- 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 Schofield mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Schofield, a northern English place-name meaning ‘field with a hut’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Schofield have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Schofield in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schofield.
- How common is the name Schofield?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,790 people named Schofield in 2010, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Schofield compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Schofield is the 470th most common surname of 1,272,424 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Schofield” — the 470th most common surname in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.