Schiffer Surname
Approximately 17,215 people bear this surname
Schiffer Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 11,902 | 1:6,764 | 835 |
| United States | 2,933 | 1:123,580 | 13,161 |
| Austria | 605 | 1:14,075 | 2,055 |
| Netherlands | 238 | 1:70,955 | 12,066 |
| France | 213 | 1:311,844 | 47,518 |
| Hungary | 193 | 1:50,862 | 5,423 |
| Brazil | 156 | 1:1,372,271 | 46,465 |
| Poland | 139 | 1:273,444 | 33,454 |
| Switzerland | 93 | 1:88,311 | 9,808 |
| Canada | 84 | 1:438,638 | 38,170 |
| Belgium | 74 | 1:155,360 | 21,583 |
| Argentina | 66 | 1:647,627 | 45,225 |
| Slovakia | 62 | 1:86,072 | 16,607 |
| England | 54 | 1:1,031,816 | 50,675 |
| Italy | 45 | 1:1,359,038 | 78,318 |
| Australia | 41 | 1:658,432 | 45,385 |
| Romania | 32 | 1:627,433 | 44,366 |
| South Africa | 31 | 1:1,747,668 | 84,236 |
| Czechia | 24 | 1:443,061 | 48,767 |
| Spain | 22 | 1:2,125,093 | 54,547 |
| Russia | 19 | 1:7,585,424 | 283,555 |
| Sweden | 19 | 1:518,250 | 37,550 |
| Israel | 18 | 1:475,424 | 36,085 |
| Mexico | 17 | 1:7,301,541 | 34,591 |
| Thailand | 15 | 1:4,709,223 | 352,754 |
| Denmark | 15 | 1:376,314 | 25,792 |
| Afghanistan | 14 | 1:2,296,656 | 15,575 |
| Saudi Arabia | 9 | 1:3,428,424 | 32,607 |
| Estonia | 8 | 1:165,226 | 26,217 |
| Paraguay | 6 | 1:1,206,124 | 10,500 |
| Slovenia | 5 | 1:497,535 | 21,006 |
| Japan | 5 | 1:25,568,859 | 50,629 |
| Wales | 4 | 1:773,633 | 29,106 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Norway | 4 | 1:1,285,572 | 69,185 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| Colombia | 2 | 1:23,887,036 | 32,612 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| Bulgaria | 2 | 1:3,489,452 | 64,958 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Vietnam | 2 | 1:46,323,027 | 5,235 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Brunei | 1 | 1:418,731 | 3,893 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1:3,536,402 | 19,532 |
| Tajikistan | 1 | 1:8,386,692 | 12,859 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 1 | 1:55,199 | 1,294 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 8 | 1:3,046,921 | 80,371 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 287 | 1:174,978 | 15,686 |
Schiffer (32) may also be a first name.
Schiffer Demographics
Average Male Schiffer Height
176.28 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Schiffer Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Schiffer Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Schiffer is most common in Germany. It may be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Schiffer? popularity and diffusion
It is the 31,022nd most commonly used family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 423,325 people. The surname is predominantly found in Europe, where 80 percent of Schiffer reside; 76 percent reside in Western Europe and 75 percent reside in Germanic Europe. Schiffer is also the 1,840,253rd most frequent first name globally, held by 32 people.
The surname is most commonly used in Germany, where it is carried by 11,902 people, or 1 in 6,764. In Germany Schiffer is most prevalent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 74 percent are found, Bavaria, where 5 percent are found and Rhineland-Palatinate, where 5 percent are found. Excluding Germany it exists in 70 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 17 percent are found and Austria, where 4 percent are found.
Schiffer Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Schiffer has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Schiffer surname increased 1,022 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it increased 675 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Schiffer Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the surname is primarily Orthodox (75%) in Russia.
In The United States those holding the Schiffer surname are 40.69% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 93.92% being registered with the political party.
The amount Schiffer earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 11.74% more than the national average, earning R 265,536 per year; in United States they earn 10.69% more than the national average, earning $47,761 USD per year and in Canada they earn 61.13% more than the national average, earning $80,056 CAD per year.
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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
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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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
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