Schwarzer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a black object or being
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃvaʁt͡sɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schwarzer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 887K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 40K
- CZCzechia1 in 82K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
477 people
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a black object or being
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schwarzer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 477 | 1 in 444K | 477 | — | — |
| US United States | 375 | 1 in 887K | 376 | Schwarzer | 135 |
| CH Switzerland | 209 | 1 in 40K | 209 | Schwarzer | 8 |
| CZ Czechia | 130 | 1 in 82K | 130 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 112 | 1 in 342K | 61 | Schwarzer | 1 |
| FI Finland | 31 | 1 in 180K | 31 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 28 | 1 in 210K | 28 | — | — |
477 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Schwarzer is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, adjektivischer Familienname mit -er; evtl. auch patronymisch oder als Komparativform. Belege: 3 824 (3 797+27).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)
- Rudolf Schwarzerb. 1879DEGerman politician and judge
- Johann Schwarzerb. 1880CZPhotographer; Film director (1880–1914)
- Max Schwarzerb. 1882DEGerman illustrator (1882–1955)
- Heinrich Schwarzerb. 1922DEbicycle racer (1922-1992)
- Zbigniew Schwarzerb. 1928PLPolish rower
- Alice Schwarzerb. 1942DEGerman journalist, publisher, and feminist
- Christian Schwarzerb. 1969DEGerman handball player
- Mark Schwarzerb. 1972AUAustralian association football player
- Christina Schwarzerb. 1976DEGerman politician
- SCHb. 1993FRnot in their usual nameFrench rapper (born 1993)
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 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 477 | #17,806 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 376 | #51,945 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 375 | #54,864 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 374 | #58,578 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 209 | #6,036 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 130 | #13,131 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 129 | #6,881 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 61 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 61 | #43,356 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 51 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 51 | #49,802 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 31 | #34,188 |
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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Schwarzer mean, and where does it come from?
- a black object or being Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Schwarzer?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃvaʁt͡sɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Schwarzer have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 477 people named Schwarzer, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Schwarzer most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schwarzer is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Schwarzer?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 477 people named Schwarzer, about 1 in 444 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Schwarzer?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schwarzerThe 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, “Schwarzer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.