Scherer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from scheren 'to shear'; also forms for barbers and shearers
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈʃɪɹɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Scherer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 3.7K
- USUnited States1 in 25K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 395 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)from scheren 'to shear'; also forms for barbers and shearers
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Scherer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #188 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | listed | Scherer | 194 |
| US United States | — | 13,421 | 1 in 25K | 13K | Scherer | 395 |
| BR Brazil | — | 12,905 | 1 in 16K | 13K | — | 6 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Scherer | 12 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 293 | — | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | #254 | 2,274 | 1 in 3.7K | 2.3K | Scherer | 74 |
| AT Austria | #725 | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Scherer | 61 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Scherer | 29 |
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; the dfa-band-1 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Scherer 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, Berufsname zu ahd. skeran, altsächs. skerian 'scheren'; zeigt Vokalquantität/kurzes e. 10019 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Occupational surname: shearer/cutter.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, from the occupation of cloth shearer
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In enm, A harvester; a person who reaps crops.
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)- Johann Jakob Schererb. 1825CHmember of the Swiss Federal Council (1825-1878)
- Wilhelm Schererb. 1841DEAustrian linguist and literature historian (1841–1886)
- Alfredo Vicente Schererb. 1903BRCatholic cardinal (1903–1996)
- Elisabeth Schererb. 1914DEGerman actress (1914–2013)
- Julio Scherer Garcíab. 1926MXMexican journalist (1926-2015)
- Adolf Schererb. 1938SKSlovak footballer (1938–2023)
- Odilo Schererb. 1949BRCatholic cardinal
- Péter Schererb. 1961HUHungarian actor (1961–2026)
- Markus Schererb. 1962DEOlympic medalist in wrestling
- Thea Dornb. 1970DEnot in their usual nameGerman writer, literary critic and TV host
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)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 13K | #2,682 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 13K | #1,105 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 13K | #2,580 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 12K | #2,928 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 2.3K | #402 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 444 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 411 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 333 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 316 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 301 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 299 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 295 | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 Scherer mean, and where does it come from?
- from scheren 'to shear'; also forms for barbers and shearers Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Scherer?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃɪɹɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Scherer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Scherer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled scherer.
- How common is the name Scherer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,421 people named Scherer in 2010, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Scherer compared with other names?
- In Germany, Scherer is the 188th most common surname of 765,306 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/schererThe 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, “Scherer” — the 188th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.