Find out how popular the last name Schoneman is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Schoneman.

Schoneman, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Schoneman surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Schoneman in America

Schoneman is the 44034th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Schoneman surname appeared 489 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Schoneman.

We can also compare 2010 data for Schoneman to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Schoneman

The surname Schoneman has its origins in Germany, dating back to the late Middle Ages. It is derived from the Middle High German words "schön" meaning "beautiful" and "man" meaning "man" or "person." The name likely referred to someone who was considered particularly handsome or attractive.

The earliest recorded instances of the name can be found in various German regional records from the 14th and 15th centuries, often spelled as "Schönemann" or "Schoneman." One notable early bearer of the name was Hans Schoneman, a merchant from Nuremberg who lived in the mid-15th century.

In the 16th century, the name appears in several historical documents, such as the records of the Hanseatic League, a powerful commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northern Europe. A certain Claus Schoneman is mentioned as a prominent trader in the city of Lübeck during this period.

As the name spread throughout the German-speaking regions, it also began to appear in various localized forms, such as "Schönmann" in certain areas of Bavaria and "Schönemann" in parts of Saxony. One of the earliest known bearers of this variation was Johann Schönemann, a Lutheran theologian and philosopher who lived from 1576 to 1637.

During the 17th and 18th centuries, several individuals with the surname Schoneman achieved notable status. This includes Johann Friedrich Schoneman (1653-1726), a German jurist and legal scholar who served as a professor of law at the University of Jena.

Another prominent bearer of the name was Gottlob Friedrich Schoneman (1736-1805), a German philologist and educator who worked as a rector at the renowned Thomasschule in Leipzig, where he taught subjects such as Greek and Latin.

As the name continued to spread and evolve, it also found its way to other parts of Europe and eventually to other continents through migration and immigration. One of the earliest recorded instances of the name in English-speaking regions is that of Carl Schoneman (1812-1891), a German-born engineer who settled in the United States and worked on various railway projects in the mid-19th century.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Schoneman

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Schoneman.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Schoneman was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Schoneman has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Schoneman was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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