Schäffers
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Schäffers is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- MRMauritania≈1 in 51K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 166K
- NLNetherlands1 in 169K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
≈340 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mauritania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Schaffers in US United States, DE Germany, ZA South Africa and 3 more and Schaeffers in NL Netherlands.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Schäffers 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Schaffers | 12 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 507K | — | Schaffers | 34 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 102 | 1 in 169K | 102 | Schaeffers | 14 |
| MR Mauritania | #856 | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Schaffers | 1 |
| US United States | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | listed | Schaffers | 60 |
| BE Belgium | — | 34 | 1 in 345K | 34 | Schaffers | 7 |
| LS Lesotho | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Schaffers | 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- In which country does Schäffers have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 341 people named Schäffers in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schaffers.
- How common is the name Schäffers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 102 people named Schäffers in 2007, about 1 in 169 thousand residents.
- How common is Schäffers compared with other names?
- In Mauritania, Schäffers is the 856th most common surname of 1,846 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Schäffers?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sch%C3%A4ffersThe 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, “Schäffers” — the 856th most common surname in Mauritania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.