The Scheunemann Family Name

Scheunemann is how some branches of the Schumann family came to write their name. Its meaning, shared with Schumann, is “Shoemaker”.

• Other spellings include Schuhmann and Schuman.
• In the 2010 US Census, 415 Americans gave Scheunemann as their last name (rank 50,362). That is enough to place it in the top 100,000 American surnames.
• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.
• Before spelling was fixed, Schumann was also written Scheunemann.

Heraldry and the Scheunemann name

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Scheunemann, so the heraldry linked to Schumann is a starting point, not an automatic right. Want more than a summary? See the Scheunemann family name pack.