Schaffer

19,727 people in the United States were counted with the surname Schaffer in the 2020 census, making it the 1,776th most common in the country. That is about one person in 15,200.

By the numbers

People: 19,727
Rank: 1,776th
How common: 1 in 15,200
Per 100,000: 6.6

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.6%
Black, not Hispanic 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Schaffer

Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718–1790)German inventor, professor, botanist, entomologist and ornithologist
Akiva Schaffer (born 1977)American comedy writer, actor and film director
Anna Schäffer (1882–1925)Catholic saint
Alfréd Schaffer (1893–1945)Hungarian footballer and manager
Frank Schaffer (born 1958)East German sprinter
Ine Schäffer (1923–2009)athletics competitor
Fritz Schäffer (1888–1967)German politician
Simon Schaffer (born 1955)British historian of science

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

Surnames like Schaffer

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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.