Schreiber Surname

5,030th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 112,469 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Liechtenstein

Schreiber Surname Definition:

“Clerk” in German. (Literally “Writer”.) Compare “Skrywer” in Afrikaans.

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Schreiber Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany68,7561:1,17184
United States23,8971:15,1681,912
Austria3,5351:2,409210
Brazil2,9201:73,3132,735
Israel2,2041:3,883543
France1,6761:39,6324,939
Switzerland1,5031:5,464829
South Africa1,0951:49,4776,283
Canada1,0591:34,7934,455
Argentina6671:64,0835,469
Australia6561:41,1525,287
Poland5081:74,82011,692
England3831:145,47814,025
Belgium3641:31,5845,108
Netherlands3591:47,0398,027
Czechia3511:30,2954,909
Hungary2731:35,9573,915
Denmark2561:22,0502,239
Sweden1941:50,7563,920
Luxembourg1751:3,317429
Peru1691:188,0728,964
Samoa1621:1,196373
Paraguay1551:46,6891,383
Spain1061:441,05723,230
Dominican Republic1001:104,3294,466
Liechtenstein991:38865
New Zealand931:48,6927,903
Italy841:728,05660,909
Thailand681:1,038,799157,648
Slovakia641:83,38216,110
Croatia601:70,47712,599
Mexico541:2,298,63320,081
Norway491:104,94514,093
Finland331:166,56714,872
United Arab Emirates331:277,64519,302
Zimbabwe271:571,78744,609
Scotland271:198,29010,618
Chile261:677,55715,745
Russia211:6,863,003268,198
Singapore211:262,27211,611
Iceland191:20,0051,629
Venezuela181:1,678,00421,578
Panama161:244,5166,353
China121:113,943,4645,994
Egypt91:10,215,08448,153
Uruguay81:428,97023,885
Philippines71:14,462,603238,248
Colombia51:9,554,81425,159
Bermuda51:13,0561,849
Malaysia51:5,898,845196,803
Namibia41:602,35012,421
Saudi Arabia41:7,713,95437,548
Botswana41:546,73222,624
Indonesia41:33,062,298643,618
Hong Kong41:1,833,8716,220
Greece41:2,769,948101,568
India31:255,688,4611,306,352
Wales31:1,031,51134,732
Belarus31:3,167,020121,664
Ecuador31:5,301,94930,184
United States Virgin Islands31:36,7924,502
Turkey21:38,910,711171,901
Romania21:10,038,93580,612
Vietnam21:46,323,0275,235
Northern Ireland21:922,51818,701
Afghanistan21:16,076,59243,178
Albania21:1,457,02824,967
Japan21:63,922,14662,827
Jordan21:4,421,21822,351
Kazakhstan21:8,841,248174,813
Uzbekistan11:30,929,14267,786
Guatemala11:16,082,66812,169
Gibraltar11:33,9541,660
Estonia11:1,321,80440,178
Costa Rica11:4,780,06913,345
Cayman Islands11:63,8932,384
Taiwan11:23,444,74693,622
Bosnia and Herzegovina11:3,536,40219,532
Aruba11:103,4772,586
Angola11:26,989,21411,853
Algeria11:38,631,551130,422
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Iraq11:35,021,65431,813
Portugal11:10,418,24125,048
Sudan11:37,510,19514,259
Kosovo11:1,861,86914,990
Slovenia11:2,487,67531,128
Lebanon11:5,637,08332,436
Lithuania11:3,034,58847,401
Micronesia11:106,2431,380
Monaco11:37,0664,748
Morocco11:34,476,099111,471
Mozambique11:27,261,5697,432
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403
Puerto Rico11:3,550,1399,109
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland11:4,429,86640,727
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England721:338,54721,815
Wales21:784,20816,349
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1,8391:27,3083,354

Schreiber (49) may also be a first name.

Schreiber Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

“Clerk” in German. (Literally “Writer”.) Compare “Skrywer” in Afrikaans.

South African Surnames (1965) by Eric Rosenthal

(German) An official, or public writer, a clerk.

Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

German. A writer or clerk. The ancestor of the English family (Sehreiber of Henhurst, co. Kent) was John Charles Sohreiber, son of Carl Sehreiber, of an ancient family of Durlach in Suabia, who settled in London about the year 1721. B.L.G.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

(German), Schrijver (Dutch/Flemish), Scrivener, Clerk, Purser.

Surnames (1857) by Bernard Homer Dixon

User-submitted Reference

This surname has its origins in different jobs or places: writer (German: Schreiber), window or glassmaker (German: Scheiber), saltdisc-trader (German: Salz-scheibenhändler, short: Scheibner). It is probable that one of those job titles lost a letter over the use of centuries to become the surname Scheiber. It is also possible that the name comes from a place that looks like a disk (Scheibe) or a village called like this, maybe due to their roundness.

- angymares

This is an Afrikaans surname, meaning 'writer', 'scribe'; from the Dutch schrijver. It is a cognate with the German schreiber. The equivalent in English is Clark, and in French - Leclerc.

- sterics

Schreier is German for 'screamer'.

- lukassns

Schreiber Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Schreiber Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Schreiber (Arabic: شريبر) is found most in Germany. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Schreiber? popularity and diffusion

The surname Schreiber is the 5,030th most widely held last name at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 64,796 people. The last name Schreiber is predominantly found in Europe, where 70 percent of Schreiber live; 68 percent live in Western Europe and 66 percent live in Germanic Europe. Schreiber is also the 1,430,306th most commonly occurring first name on earth It is held by 49 people.

The last name Schreiber is most numerous in Germany, where it is held by 68,756 people, or 1 in 1,171. In Germany Schreiber is mostly found in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 20 percent live, Bavaria, where 13 percent live and Baden-Württemberg, where 10 percent live. Without taking into account Germany this last name is found in 95 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 21 percent live and Austria, where 3 percent live.

Schreiber Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Schreiber has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Schreiber last name expanded 1,299 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 532 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it expanded 150 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Schreiber Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those carrying the Schreiber surname is principally Catholic (100%) in Ireland.

In The United States those holding the Schreiber surname are 11.64% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 58.41% being registered to vote for the political party.

The amount Schreiber earn in different countries varies greatly. In Italy they earn 87.69% more than the national average, earning €56,364 per year; in Norway they earn 14.65% less than the national average, earning 295,381 kr per year; in Peru they earn 112.43% more than the national average, earning S/. 41,180 per year; in South Africa they earn 66.07% more than the national average, earning R 394,656 per year; in United States they earn 12.73% more than the national average, earning $48,642 USD per year and in Canada they earn 9.35% more than the national average, earning $54,329 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Schreiber Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Schreiber in the Arabic language
شريبرshrybr-

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Schreiber Reference & Research

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Schreiber FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.

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