Surname Spotlight: Schnabel

Wikidata records Schnabel as a German family name. The 2010 census count for Schnabel in the United States was 3,110, good for rank 10,365. French birth records list 158 children named Schnabel between 1891 and 2000. There were 17 such births in the 1890s and 24 in the 1990s. Spelling in old records was loose, so search for Schnabel under several forms. The meaning of Schnabel is not given in the reference works we use for these short pages; a full report traces it from your own family's records.

Schnabel is easy to measure, thanks to official name counts.

Sharing the Schnabel name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families. Research your Schnabel family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.