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The Schuhmacher surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 464 people carried this name — #45,959 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 625,000 people counted. That is up 12% from 415 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Schuhmacher surname

A surname originating as an occupation.

From Middle High German schuochmacher. By surface analysis, Schuh (“shoe”) + Macher (“maker”).

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Schuhmacher» (German), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

490 people named Schuhmacher live in Switzerland.

They live in 17 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Zurich 158
Aargau 129
Bern 73
Thurgau 25
Solothurn 20
St. Gallen 19
Vaud 13
Basel-Landschaft 8

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 209 people named Schuhmacher.

20 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 16 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.

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Where they were born

Born outside France 20
Bas-Rhin 64
Moselle 54
Haut-Rhin 29
Paris 20
Meurthe-et-Moselle 7
Val-de-Marne 2
Vosges 2
Côte-d’Or 2

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

Who carried it

People named Schuhmacher,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Franz Plazid Schumacher
    Franz Plazid Schumacher 1677–1742 · politician
  • Melitta Schuhmacher d. 1967 · art model
  • Melitta Schuhmacher d. 1967 · art model
  • Wilhelm Schuhmacher d. 1949
  • Heinrich Schuhmacher 1606–
  • Stephan Schuhmacher 1819–1875 · organ builder

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.

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