Schönburg Surname
Approximately 282 people bear this surname
Schönburg Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 254 | 1:316,951 | 31,911 |
| Austria | 24 | 1:354,810 | 38,119 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
The alternate forms: Schonburg (38) are calculated separately.
Schönburg Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Schönburg Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Schönburg is borne by more people in Germany than any other country/territory. It may appear as: Schonburg. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Schönburg? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 933,049th most frequently held family name on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 25,842,361 people. The surname Schönburg is mostly found in Europe, where 99 percent of Schönburg are found; 99 percent are found in Western Europe and 99 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The last name Schönburg is most commonly held in Germany, where it is carried by 254 people, or 1 in 316,951. In Germany it is mostly concentrated in: Saxony-Anhalt, where 41 percent are found, Saxony, where 16 percent are found and North Rhine-Westphalia, where 12 percent are found. Barring Germany this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also found in Austria, where 9 percent are found and Brazil, where 1 percent are found.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
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