Across the world, Scheffer (Scheffer 
, שפר 
, Шеффер 
) is a very rare dominantly male, but seldom female forename. The first name Scheffer is habitual in Eastern Asia, particularly China, where it is an extremely rare male name. Much more prevalently, Scheffer is the last name as well as the forename.
| VARIANT | COUNTRY |
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| Scheffer | Germany, Netherlands, Brazil, United States, Argentina |
| שפר | Israel |
| Шеффер | Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Russia |
Scheffer is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: .
| melchior scheffer (b. 1682) |
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| rickard scheffer SE (b. 1971) |
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| zacharias scheffer |
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