Schaaf

5,152 people in the United States were counted with the surname Schaaf in the 2020 census, making it the 6,347th most common in the country. That is about one person in 58,000.

By the numbers

People: 5,152
Rank: 6,347th
How common: 1 in 58,000
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

From the German surname, from Schafe (“sheep”). Also compare Schaap.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Schaaf described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Schaaf

Thomas Schaaf (born 1961)German footballer/manager
Johannes Schaaf (1933–2019)German film and stage director
Remco van der Schaaf (born 1979)Dutch professional footballer

People named Schaaf with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Schaaf

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.