Schoen
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Schoen is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 80th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Nonstandard spelling of schön used in some older texts and when technical limitations prevent the use of umlauts.
- IEIreland1 in 154◐
- AUAustralia1 in 450
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 480
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈381K ●
- #491 ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 583 ●
- 1 in 887 ◐
across 9 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
4.6M records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sean in US United States, KR South Korea, GB United Kingdom and 21 more, Shaun in ZA South Africa, SG Singapore, MY Malaysia, שון in IL Israel, FR France and Schön in DE Germany.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Nonstandard spelling of schön used in some older texts and when technical limitations prevent the use of umlauts.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | #80 | 431,420 | 289K rec. | — | 35 | Sean | 283 |
| US United States | #118 | 375,045 | 3.7M rec. | 1 in 887 | 375K | Sean | 583 |
| AU Australia | #82 | 256,916 | 169K rec. | — | 122 | Sean | 304 |
| CA Canada | #114 | 109,167 | 88K rec. | — | 11 | Sean | 256 |
| IE Ireland | #9 | 60,744 | 18K rec. | — | 255 | Sean | 169 |
| DE Germany | #987 | 38,081 | 35K rec. | — | 1 | Schön | 177 |
| ZA South Africa | #45 | 33,477 | 31K rec. | — | — | Shaun | 149 |
| PH Philippines | #727 | 29,131 | 14K rec. | — | — | Sean | 131 |
| NZ New Zealand | #43 | 14,457 | 10K rec. | — | 10 | Sean | 131 |
| IT Italy | #564 | 11,243 | 14K rec. | — | 4 | Sean | 100 |
| IL Israel | #850 | 10,452 | 16K rec. | — | 164 | שון | 79 |
| EG Egypt | #564 | 8,910 | 8.9K rec. | — | — | Sean | 24 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English71K70%
- German12K11%
- Spanish3.3K3%
- French3.1K3%
- 1.5K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 71,393 | 70% |
| German | 11,664 | 11% |
| Spanish | 3,300 | 3% |
| French | 3,082 | 3% |
| 1,490 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Schoen is also recorded in 2 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 schon (“to shoe”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, shoe (footwear)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 36 |
| 1901 | 36 |
| 1911 | 45 |
| 1921 | 54 |
| 1931 | 43 |
| 1941 | 70 |
| 1951 | 87 |
| 1961 | 80 |
| 1971 | 59 |
| 1981 | 77 |
| 1991 | 70 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Vic Schoenb. 1916USAmerican bandleader, arranger, and composer (1916–2000)
- Edgar Schoenb. 1925USAmerican physician
- Tom Schoenb. 1946USAmerican football defensive back
- Richard Schoenb. 1950USAmerican mathematician
- Hartmut Schoenb. 1951DEGerman screenwriter and film producer
- Douglas Schoenb. 1953USAmerican political consultant
- David Schoenb. 1958USAlabama-based American attorney
- Lawrence M. Schoenb. 1959USAmerican writer and klingonist
- Christian Schoenb. 1970DEGerman art curator
- Harold SchoenUSAmerican mathematician, basketball 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.2K | #4,000 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.1K | #4,365 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.6K | #4,536 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1K | #1,691 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 153 | #45,615 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 103 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 87 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 80 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 77 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 75 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 75 | #37,594 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 70 | — |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 30 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Schoen?
- We estimate roughly 381 thousand people bear Schoen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Schoen have the most bearers?
- Schoen is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled sean.
- How common is Schoen compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Schoen is the 80th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Schoen mean?
- Recorded meaning: Nonstandard spelling of schön used in some older texts and when technical limitations prevent the use of umlauts.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Schoen” — the 80th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.