Schaaf Surname
Approximately 26,035 people bear this surname
Schaaf Surname Definition:
(Dutch) Dweller at the sign of the carpenter's plane, probably a carpenter.
Schaaf Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 15,620 | 1:5,154 | 617 |
| United States | 7,174 | 1:50,524 | 6,109 |
| Netherlands | 1,070 | 1:15,782 | 2,404 |
| Canada | 361 | 1:102,065 | 11,068 |
| France | 356 | 1:186,581 | 29,031 |
| Argentina | 349 | 1:122,474 | 10,357 |
| Chile | 215 | 1:81,937 | 3,244 |
| Switzerland | 113 | 1:72,681 | 8,609 |
| New Zealand | 100 | 1:45,283 | 7,455 |
| Austria | 91 | 1:93,576 | 13,671 |
| South Africa | 83 | 1:652,743 | 48,091 |
| Luxembourg | 75 | 1:7,741 | 1,212 |
| Brazil | 70 | 1:3,058,205 | 88,974 |
| Belgium | 58 | 1:198,218 | 26,032 |
| Australia | 48 | 1:562,410 | 41,290 |
| England | 39 | 1:1,428,668 | 62,556 |
| Denmark | 30 | 1:188,157 | 15,676 |
| Spain | 19 | 1:2,460,633 | 58,585 |
| Sweden | 18 | 1:547,042 | 39,827 |
| Norway | 17 | 1:302,487 | 30,120 |
| Guam | 12 | 1:13,343 | 2,098 |
| Bolivia | 10 | 1:1,061,643 | 4,908 |
| Finland | 10 | 1:549,670 | 32,186 |
| Samoa | 9 | 1:21,534 | 479 |
| Thailand | 9 | 1:7,848,705 | 447,191 |
| Peru | 7 | 1:4,540,589 | 34,489 |
| Liechtenstein | 6 | 1:6,396 | 809 |
| Greece | 6 | 1:1,846,632 | 89,049 |
| Uruguay | 6 | 1:571,960 | 26,877 |
| Namibia | 5 | 1:481,880 | 11,140 |
| Paraguay | 4 | 1:1,809,186 | 12,346 |
| Scotland | 4 | 1:1,338,454 | 35,497 |
| Portugal | 4 | 1:2,604,560 | 16,079 |
| Tonga | 4 | 1:26,828 | 461 |
| China | 3 | 1:455,773,855 | 21,925 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Croatia | 2 | 1:2,114,302 | 85,143 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| North Macedonia | 1 | 1:2,101,472 | 31,546 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Gibraltar | 1 | 1:33,954 | 1,660 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 7 | 1:3,482,196 | 89,582 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 883 | 1:56,873 | 6,337 |
The alternate forms: Schaáf (11) are calculated separately.
Schaaf (76) may also be a first name.
Schaaf Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(Dutch) Dweller at the sign of the carpenter's plane, probably a carpenter.
Schaaf Demographics
Average Schaaf Salary in
United States
$43,735 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Schaaf Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Schaaf Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Schaaf is most common in Germany. It may occur in the variant forms: Schaáf. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Schaaf? popularity and diffusion
The last name Schaaf is the 20,959th most frequent family name internationally It is held by around 1 in 279,913 people. This surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 67 percent of Schaaf are found; 67 percent are found in Western Europe and 65 percent are found in Germanic Europe. Schaaf is also the 1,107,702nd most widely held first name world-wide, borne by 76 people.
It is most commonly used in Germany, where it is held by 15,620 people, or 1 in 5,154. In Germany it is most numerous in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 25 percent live, Baden-Württemberg, where 19 percent live and Rhineland-Palatinate, where 13 percent live. Besides Germany this last name is found in 58 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 28 percent live and The Netherlands, where 4 percent live.
Schaaf Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Schaaf has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Schaaf surname grew 812 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it grew 557 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Schaaf Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Schaaf surname are 18.14% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 64.91% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Schaaf earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 12.55% more than the national average, earning 389,520 kr per year; in Peru they earn 58.49% less than the national average, earning S/. 8,046 per year; in South Africa they earn 7.06% more than the national average, earning R 254,412 per year; in United States they earn 1.36% more than the national average, earning $43,735 USD per year and in Canada they earn 9.24% more than the national average, earning $54,275 CAD per year.
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Schaaf Reference & Research
Schaaf-Shoaf FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Schaaf
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