Scheffer Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 7
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 3
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 1
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Scheffer Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Scheffer family

Profession Census Frequency
Restaurant Keeper 2
Sailor 1
Scholar 1
Tailor 1
Cigar Maker 1
Cigar Maker Wife 1
Iron Stone Miner 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Scheffer

Name Census Frequency
John Scheffer 15
William Scheffer 14
Elizabeth Scheffer 10
Mary Scheffer 10
Henry Scheffer 9
George Scheffer 7
Amelia Scheffer 6
Thomas Scheffer 6
Adelaide Scheffer 5
Albert Scheffer 5
Charles Scheffer 5
Frederick Scheffer 5
Jane Scheffer 5
Louisa Scheffer 5
James Scheffer 4
Sarah Scheffer 4
Alice Scheffer 3
Bertha Scheffer 3
Eliza Scheffer 3
Gertrude Scheffer 3
Hannah Scheffer 3
Phillip Scheffer 3
Robert Scheffer 3
Rose Scheffer 3
Abraham Scheffer 2

Scheffer Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Schaffer 88% 793
2 Scheffer 100% 267

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The surname Scheffer is the 2nd most popular variant of Schaffer.

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