Schaeffer

Schaeffer is the 2,391st most common surname in the United States, shared by 14,890 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 20,100.

By the numbers

People: 14,890
Rank: 2,391st
How common: 1 in 20,100
Per 100,000: 5.0

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Schaeffer

Pierre Schaeffer (1910–1995)French composer and musicologist
Rebecca Schaeffer (1967–1989)actress
Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984)American theologian and writer
Jac Schaeffer (born 1978)American filmmaker
Wendy Schaeffer (born 1974)Australian equestrian
Claude F. A. Schaeffer (1898–1982)French archaeologist
Bogusław Schaeffer (1929–2019)Polish composer
Eric Schaeffer (born 1962)actor, film director, screenwriter

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

Surnames like Schaeffer

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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.