Schubert
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: ‘maker or repairer of shoes’ (from Middle High German schuoch ‘shoe’ + wirhte ‘maker’)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈʃubɚt/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Schubert is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 55th most common surname.
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 4K
- BBBarbados≈1 in 4.1Kfew records
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 386 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈71,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
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)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)‘maker or repairer of shoes’ (from Middle High German schuoch ‘shoe’ + wirhte ‘maker’)
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Schubert is read
(measured from records)Schubert is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English48%
‘maker or repairer of shoes’ (from Middle High German schuoch ‘shoe’ + wirhte ‘maker’)
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- German40%
from mhd. schucliwürhte 'shoe-maker/shoe-weaver'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
name for a shoemaker or cobbler, from MHG schuouch shoe (see Schuh) + wiirhte maker (see Wright). The sound /b/ was often substituted for /v/ in southern and south-eastern dialects of German. Vars.; Schubart, Schubort, Schuwart, Schuchert, Schuckert, Schottle see Scott Schuh(h)ardt. Schpitz see Spitz
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
a surname originating as an occupation, notably of the Austrian composer Franz Schubert
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Occupational surname from mhd. schuochwürhte/-worhte/-würke 'shoemaker, shoe-worker'; leather trade. Variant cluster includes Schuberth, Schobert(h), Schoberth, Schubart(h), Schu(h)werk, Schu(h)wirth, Schu(h)wirt, Schuwirth, Schuard(t), Schuart, Schubbert, Schuppert, Schuppart, Schaubert(h), Schaupert, Schübert, Schüppert, Schoppert(h), Schobbert, Schuber, Schurig.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Berufsname: 'Schuhbinder/-flicker' bzw. mit Schuhwerk verbunden; historische Formen auch Schubert, Schubarth, Schubbert, Schubbart.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Schubert is found
(measured from records)Schubert 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 | #55 | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | listed | Schubert | 229 |
| US United States | — | 12,629 | 1 in 26K | 13K | Schubert | 386 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 79K | 117 | — | 2 |
| AT Austria | #282 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Schubert | 95 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Schubert | 140 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 679 | 1 in 12K | 679 | Schubert | 45 |
| BB Barbados | #35 | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Schubert | 3 |
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; the dfa-band-5 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)- Franz Schubertb. 1797ATAustrian composer (1797–1828)
- Heinz Schubertb. 1925DEGerman actor (1925–1999)
- André Schubertb. 1971DEGerman football coach
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)48 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Schubert mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘maker or repairer of shoes’ (from Middle High German schuoch ‘shoe’ + wirhte ‘maker’) Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Schubert?
- In the etymology graph, Schuster and Schumann are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Schubert?
- It depends on the language: in English /ˈʃubɚt/ (Wiktionary); in German /ˈʃuːbɐt/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Schubert?
- Mondonomo estimates about 71 thousand people named Schubert in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schubert. After it come United States, Brazil, Austria and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Schubert?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,629 people named Schubert in 2010, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Schubert compared with other names?
- In Germany, Schubert is the 55th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schubertThe 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, “Schubert” — the 55th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.