Neuschäfer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Berufsname zu Schäfer 'Schafhirte'; Variante mit Neu-
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: BFS, 2024
Neuschäfer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 268K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 840K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Neuschäfer itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 268K (inferred from the name graph)
≈300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Neuschaefer in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom and Neuschafer in SG Singapore.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Berufsname zu Schäfer 'Schafhirte'; Variante mit Neu-.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Neuschäfer counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 268K | — | Neuschäfer | 39 |
| US United States | 137 | 1 in 2.4M | 144 | Neuschaefer | 92 |
| CA Canada | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Neuschaefer | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 4.7M | — | Neuschaefer | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | Neuschäfer | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Neuschafer | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Neuschäfer | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Neuschäfer is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Berufsname zu Schäfer 'Hirte'; 3 Typen/240 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Berufsname: 'neuer Schäfer'. Bearer count: 240.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Carl Neuschäferb. 1879DEGerman theologian (1879-1946)
- Hans Neuschäferb. 1931DEGerman footballer (1931-2020)
- Hans-Jörg Neuschäferb. 1933DEGerman specialist in literature and romanist
- Wilfried Neuschäferb. 1970DEGerman association football player
- Kirsten Neuschäferb. 1982ZASouth African yachts person
- Markus NeuschäferDEphilologist from Germany
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Neuschäfer mean?
- Recorded meaning: Berufsname zu Schäfer 'Schafhirte'; Variante mit Neu-.
- In which country does Neuschäfer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 299 people named Neuschäfer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neuschäfer.
- How common is the name Neuschäfer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 137 people named Neuschäfer in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/neusch%C3%A4ferThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Neuschäfer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.