Scharer
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/st͡ʃaɾɛr/(machine-generated) Spanish · 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.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 199K
- DEGermany≈1 in 290Kfew records
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)
4,794 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Schärer in CH Switzerland, NO Norway 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
(measured from records)Borrowed from German Schärer.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)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.
| 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 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 294K | — | Scharer | 54 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Schaerer | 9 |
| FR France | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 296K | 44 | — | 2 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Scharer | 24 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 129K | — | Schärer | 10 |
| BZ Belize | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | 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); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- 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
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| 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 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 5 | — |
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 Scharer mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Schärer. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Scharer?
- In Spanish /st͡ʃaɾɛr/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- 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.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/scharerThe 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, “Scharer” — the 92nd most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.