Scharf

Scharf is the 6,877th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,707 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 63,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,707
Rank: 6,877th
How common: 1 in 63,500
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

South German and Jewish surname, from the adjective scharf (“sharp”) or its Yiddish equivalent שאַרף. Compare Sharp, Sharf, Sarff.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Scharf

Adolf Schärf (1890–1965)Austrian politician, President of Austria 1957–1965
Walter Scharf (1910–2003)American composer and arranger

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

Surnames like Scharf

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.