Shaper

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from ME schapen ‘to shape’, a tailor; first attested Julia Schaper 1332 SRSx (A Dictionary of English Surnames)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/ˈʃeɪpə(ɹ)/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary

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Shaper is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 137 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.

  • USUnited States1 in 2.4M(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 6.8M
  • IEIreland≈1 in 850Kfew records

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)

137 people, 2010

Record sources
148 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 851K (inferred from the name graph)

Ireland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Shaper

  • English:/ˈʃeɪpə(ɹ)/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

from ME schapen ‘to shape’, a tailor; first attested Julia Schaper 1332 SRSx

Cited for this meaning 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Shaper is found

(measured from records)

Shaper 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.

Where Shaper is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1371 in 2.4M165Shaper148
BR Brazil311 in 6.8M31——
GB United Kingdom≈28 est.≈1 in 2.5M45Shaper26
AU Australia≈17 est.≈1 in 1.6M—Shaper19
CA Canada≈14 est.≈1 in 2.9M—Shaper8
IE Ireland≈6 est.≈1 in 851K—Shaper5

137 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Shaper is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States

    Also written Schaper, Шапер, Schäper

24 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Shaper 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 English, agent deriv. of ME schap(en) to form, mould (a back-for¬ mation from schap, OE (ge)sceap, from *sciepan to create). Vars.: Shapster, Shipster (fern, forms). Scharping, stone’). Sharrock see Shorrock Patrs.: McShanl(e)y. Scharping, Cpds (arbitrary elaborations): Jewish: Scharfherz, Szarfherc, (sharp heart’); Scharfstein, Szarfstein (‘sharp Var.: Shank. Var.: Shanly. Ger.:

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  • In English, Any agent that shapes (something), whether literally or figuratively.

    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)

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)
FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Shaper mean, and where does it come from?
from ME schapen ‘to shape’, a tailor; first attested Julia Schaper 1332 SRSx Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
What are other forms of the name Shaper?
In the etymology graph, Glasser is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Shaper?
In English /ˈʃeɪpə(ɹ)/ (Wiktionary).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Shaper?
In the United States, the national register counted about 137 people named Shaper, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shaper. After it come Brazil, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Shaper?
In the United States, the national register counted 137 people named Shaper in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.

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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, “Shaper” — ranked 111119th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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