Today I'd like to compare the distribution of all possible spellings of schOchenmaiers versus schAchenmaiers, in order to see if there are any regularities or interdependences therein.
With the help of German Surnames Atlas program (by courtesy of Prof. Konrad Kunze from the University of Freibrug, as the software is not publically accessible), I could map the distribution of all (SHOKHENMAYER) spellings. It's a dataset with more than 30 millions of German citizens on the basis of their phone lines and zipcodes. Taking into account that there are about 83 millions of people in Germany, we come to the coefficient of 2,9 persons per phone line (what is actually a "normal" German family: he, she and one child). It would be of great interest to get to know how many Scho/achenmaiers are living in Germany now.
All in all, we have the follwoing possible spellings for SchOc?(h/k)enm(a/e)ier:
The numbers to the right show how many phone lines are to be found in Germany. We multiply by 3 (or 2,9) and we get the approximative number of living with those family names. As you can see, there are probably not more than 40 persons who write their names with "O".
With the help of German Surnames Atlas program (by courtesy of Prof. Konrad Kunze from the University of Freibrug, as the software is not publically accessible), I could map the distribution of all (SHOKHENMAYER) spellings. It's a dataset with more than 30 millions of German citizens on the basis of their phone lines and zipcodes. Taking into account that there are about 83 millions of people in Germany, we come to the coefficient of 2,9 persons per phone line (what is actually a "normal" German family: he, she and one child). It would be of great interest to get to know how many Scho/achenmaiers are living in Germany now.
All in all, we have the follwoing possible spellings for SchOc?(h/k)enm(a/e)ier:
| Schochenmaier | 5 * 3 = 15 |
| Schochenmeier | 4 * 3 = 12 |
| Schockenmaier | 1 * 3 = 3 |
| Schockenmeier | 2 * 3 = 6 |
| Schokenmeier | 1 * 3 = 3 |
The numbers to the right show how many phone lines are to be found in Germany. We multiply by 3 (or 2,9) and we get the approximative number of living with those family names. As you can see, there are probably not more than 40 persons who write their names with "O".
By the way, there are 40 Schochenmaiers in Germany, about 10 in Switzerland, about 20 in Russia and about 300 hundreds of them in the North America !!!))) Alert! We are dying out here in Europe)))
Well, what about SchAchenm(a/e)(i/y)e?r:
| Schachenmayer | 9 * 3 = 27 |
| Schachenmayr | 16 * 3 = 48 |
| Schachenmeier | 15 * 3 = 45 |
So, there are about 120 of Schachenmaiers.
And now the map:
What can you see on the map? The dwelling places of Schochenmaiers have almost no overlapping with that of Schachenmaiers (except the Northern Bavaria!) The considerable number of Schachenmaiers is to be seen in the Southern Bavaria, near to Austria. The Schochenmaiers are to be mostly found in area of Baden and Rhineland-Palatinate. So to say, Schochenmaiers - on your left and Schachenmaiers - on your right.
We may conclude, that they possibly had a different origin. But, as I have already mentioned, it depences on the origin of the family.
In the next posting I will present the first theory on the Schochenmaier family name origin.
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