Schone

Name: Schone: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

Pronunciation:

Schone is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Schöne.

DEGermany≈1 in 9K(inferred from the name graph)
ATAustria≈1 in 95Kfew records
CHSwitzerland1 in 111K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Germany (inferred from the name graph)
Record sources: 174 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 9.0K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Schoene in AT Austria, CH Switzerland and Schöne in DE Germany.

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

Borrowed from German Schöne.

Cited for this meaning 1

Wiktionary

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Schone 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.

Where Schone is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
DE Germany	#667	≈9,300 est.	≈1 in 9K	listed	Schöne	93
US United States	—	584	1 in 570K	622	Schone	174
TZ Tanzania	—	≈350 est.	≈1 in 198K	—	Schone	8
CD Congo - Kinshasa	—	≈160 est.	≈1 in 682K	—	Schone	1
BR Brazil	—	105	1 in 2M	105	—	—
AT Austria	—	≈97 est.	≈1 in 95K	—	Schoene	12
CH Switzerland	—	76	1 in 111K	76	Schoene	6
SG Singapore	—	≈61 est.	≈1 in 99K	—	Schone	2

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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way

Schone is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Spanish surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Mexico
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Schöne
French surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, United States, Congo - Kinshasa
Also written Schöne, Schône, Sçhôñë
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Schöne
Danish surname6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Norway
Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish
Also written Schöne
Polish surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Poland
Also written Schöne

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

Schone is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

In enm, alternative form of schun
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gml, beautiful, pretty, sheen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, inflection of schoon:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hrx, to protect
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dum, beautiful
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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

Anker Schoneb. 1920Danish boxer
Robin Schoneb. 1954USAmerican writer

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

FormalDear Schone,

InformalHello,

Evidence

14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Schone
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020	2020	622	#38,337
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010	2010	584	#37,993
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000	2000	548	#38,035
BR Brazil	IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)	—	105	#61,079
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)	—	—	—

Reference works 2

Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Schone mean, and where does it come from?: Borrowed from German Schöne. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Schone have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 9.3 thousand people named Schone in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schöne.
How common is the name Schone?: In the United States, the national register counted 584 people named Schone in 2010, about 1 in 570 thousand residents.
How common is Schone compared with other names?: In Germany, Schone is the 667th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.

What do you want to know about Schone?

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schone

The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Schone” — the 667th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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