Given name & surname
Schon
“handsome, nice, beautiful”
Schon is a surname from German.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Schon goes back to a word meaning “handsome, nice, beautiful.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1965. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Schon through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 117
- 117 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1969
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2004. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 192 as a first name in 2020; 1,303 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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