Scharre
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Scharre 'miser' or 'sales stand, meat stall'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Scharre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 156K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 556K
- IEIreland≈1 in 599K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 156K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Scharre 'miser' or 'sales stand, meat stall'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Scharre 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 556K | 18 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 755K | — | Scharre | 32 |
| US United States | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 4M | listed | Scharre | 58 |
| BE Belgium | 75 | 1 in 156K | 75 | Scharre | 7 |
| IE Ireland | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 599K | — | Scharre | 1 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Scharre 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, 1. "Geizhals". 2. "Verkaufsstand, Fleisch- bank u. dgl.". Schar(r)n. Auch scherre: Scher(re), Schern er (x SCHAR, schar; vgl. schranne). 3. ON. Schare, Bautzen. Scharrer
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In nds (Germany), shadow; shade
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 75 | #19,562 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 4 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Scharre mean, and where does it come from?
- from Scharre 'miser' or 'sales stand, meat stall' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Scharre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 122 people named Scharre in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Scharre most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Scharre is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 156 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Scharre?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 75 people named Scharre in 2008, about 1 in 156 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/scharreThe 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, “Scharre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.