Schoon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: s. SCHÖN (Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Schoon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 15K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 34K
- BEBelgium1 in 133K
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
- 204 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)s. SCHÖN
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Schoon is found
(measured from records)Schoon 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 | — | Schoon | 80 |
| US United States | 1,391 | 1 in 239K | 1.5K | Schoon | 204 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,138 | 1 in 15K | 1.1K | Schoon | 48 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Schoon | 20 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 405K | 96 | Schoon | 46 |
| BE Belgium | 88 | 1 in 133K | 88 | Schoon | 10 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Schoon | 4 |
| IE Ireland | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Schoon | 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Schoon 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 Dutch, clean
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In gsw, brightening, especially of the sky
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, 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
(measured from records)- Milt Schoonb. 1922USAmerican basketball player
- Mary Schoonb. 1955NLDutch creator
- Raïsa Schoonb. 2001NLDutch beach volleyball player
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Schoon mean, and where does it come from?
- s. SCHÖN Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Schoon?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Schoon in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schoon. After it come United States, Netherlands, South Africa and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Schoon most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schoon is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Schoon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,391 people named Schoon in 2010, about 1 in 239 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Schoon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schoonThe 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, “Schoon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.