Scharer

Name: Scharer: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/ˈʃɛɹɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Scharer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country, where it is the 92nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Schärer.

rarermore common

CHSwitzerland1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
USUnited States1 in 553K
BZBelize≈1 in 27K

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 Scharer 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.

: Switzerland (measured from records)
Record sources: 173 (measured from records)
: 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Schärer in CH Switzerland and Schaerer in PY Paraguay.

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

Borrowed from German Schärer.

Cited for this meaning 1

Wiktionary

Where in the world

Scharer 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.

Where Scharer is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
CH Switzerland	#92	4,794	1 in 1.8K	4.8K	Schärer	63
US United States	—	601	1 in 553K	663	Scharer	173
DZ Algeria	—	≈340 est.	≈1 in 125K	—	Scharer	1
DE Germany	—	≈270 est.	≈1 in 302K	—	Scharer	54
PY Paraguay	—	≈260 est.	≈1 in 28K	—	Schaerer	9
AT Austria	—	≈79 est.	≈1 in 112K	—	Scharer	24
BZ Belize	—	≈15 est.	≈1 in 27K	—	Scharer	1

4,794 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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 names spelled this way

Scharer is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

French surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, Switzerland, United States
Also written Schärer
a separate name3 spellings in the group
Also written Schärer, Schárer
Finnish surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Switzerland
Also written Schärer
Danish surname7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Switzerland, Denmark, Iceland
Languages: Danish, Swedish, Icelandic
Also written Schärer
Arabic surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Switzerland, Algeria
Also written Schärer
Croatian surname8 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Switzerland, Croatia
Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Macedonian
Also written Schärer
Polish surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Switzerland
Also written Schärer

24 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

Eddie Scharerb. 1902USAmerican football player (1902-1989)
Erika Scharerb. 1952ATAustrian politician
Avery Scharerb. 1986USAmerican basketball player (born 1986)

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).

How to address them

FormalDear Scharer,

InformalHello,

Evidence

11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Scharer
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020	2020	663	#36,342
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000	2000	634	#33,876
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010	2010	601	#37,125
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)	—	—	—

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.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Scharer mean, and where does it come from?: Borrowed from German Schärer. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Scharer?: A machine transcription gives /ˈʃɛɹɝ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Scharer have the most bearers?: In Switzerland, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named Scharer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schärer.
Where is Scharer most common?: Scharer is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.8 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Scharer?: In Switzerland, the national register counted 4,794 people named Scharer in 2024, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
How common is Scharer compared with other names?: In Switzerland, Scharer is the 92nd most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.

What do you want to know about Scharer?

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/scharer

The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Scharer” — the 92nd most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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