Schoombie Surname
Approximately 922 people bear this surname
Schoombie Surname Definition:
Place name. Corruption of Schonberg, or of Schonbuhl (also written Schonbiel) in Austria. (Compare Kitzbuhl, well-known winter resort.)
“Buhl” is old German for hill. Name introduced to South Africa via Denmark.
Schoombie Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 898 | 1:60,332 | 7,619 |
| England | 10 | 1:5,571,806 | 158,774 |
| Australia | 3 | 1:8,998,567 | 200,784 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Finland | 2 | 1:2,748,351 | 72,663 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
Schoombie Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Place name. Corruption of Schonberg, or of Schonbuhl (also written Schonbiel) in Austria. (Compare Kitzbuhl, well-known winter resort.)
“Buhl” is old German for hill. Name introduced to South Africa via Denmark.
Schoombie Demographics
Average Schoombie Salary in
Norway
360,979 kr
Per year
Average Salary in
Norway
346,080 kr
Per year
Schoombie Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Schoombie Come From? nationality or country of origin
Schoombie is borne by more people in South Africa than any other country or territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Schoombie? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 385,337th most frequent last name internationally It is held by around 1 in 7,904,063 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Schoombie are found; 97 percent are found in Southern Africa and 97 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.
This last name is most prevalent in South Africa, where it is carried by 898 people, or 1 in 60,332. In South Africa it is primarily found in: Gauteng, where 51 percent live, North West, where 13 percent live and Western Cape, where 9 percent live. Other than South Africa this last name occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in England, where 1 percent live and Australia, where 0 percent live.
Schoombie Last Name Statistics demography
The amount Schoombie earn in different countries varies markedly. In Norway they earn 4.31% more than the national average, earning 360,979 kr per year and in South Africa they earn 49.06% more than the national average, earning R 354,216 per year.
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