Shaffer

Shaffer is the 577th most common surname in the United States, shared by 57,111 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,234.

By the numbers

People: 57,111
Rank: 577th
How common: 1 in 5,234
Per 100,000: 19.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Shaffer

Peter Shaffer (1926–2016)English playwright and screenwriter
James "Munky" Shaffer (born 1970)American guitarist
Atticus Shaffer (born 1998)American actor
Paul Shaffer (born 1949)Canadian singer, composer, actor, author, comedian, and multi-instrumentalist
Anna Shaffer (born 1992)British actress
Anthony Shaffer (1926–2001)writer, barrister and advertising executive from England
Mary Ann Shaffer (1934–2008)United States writer, editor and bookshop worker

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

Surnames like Shaffer

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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.