Scher
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Scher is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Name in the US and Europe, for a tailor.
- USUnited States1 in 103K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 161K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 66K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 288 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 66K (inferred from the name graph)
3,222 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Name in the US and Europe, for a tailor.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Scher 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,222 | 1 in 103K | 3.2K | Scher | 288 |
| BR Brazil | 1,229 | 1 in 172K | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 161K | 93 | Scher | 58 |
| AR Argentina | 388 | 1 in 117K | 388 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 217K | listed | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Scher | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Scher | 8 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Scher | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 36 | 1 in 94K | 36 | — | — |
3,222 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Scher is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Contracted form of Scherer; occupational surname for a barber/shearer; bearer count 80.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, singular imperative of scheren
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pdc, pair of scissors
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romansh, to lie
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Addai Scherb. 1867IQChaldean Catholic cleric and scholar (1867-1915)
- Peter Scherb. 1880DEGerman journalist and author (1880-1953)
- Philip George Scherb. 1880USCatholic bishop
- Tibor Scherb. 1912HUHungarian rabbi, hebraist, historian of classical antiquity (1912–1975)
- Giovanni Scherb. 1915ITItalian rower (1915–1992)
- Anna Scherb. 1944IEBritish-Irish drama teacher (1944–2023)
- Paula Scherb. 1948USAmerican graphic designer (born 1948)
- Julia Scherb. 1954USAmerican artist (born 1954)
- Bill Scherb. 1972USAmerican journalist
- Ana Paula ScherBRBrazilian linguist
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)
Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #10,006 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,438 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,961 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #7,673 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 388 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 93 | #34,663 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 36 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Scher mean, and where does it come from?
- Name in the US and Europe, for a tailor. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- In which country does Scher have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Scher, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled scher.
- How common is the name Scher?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,222 people named Scher in 2010, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/scherThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Scher”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.