Schäffers Surname
Approximately 39 people bear this surname
Schäffers Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 37 | 1:456,410 | 45,371 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
The alternate forms: Schaffers (755) are calculated separately.
Schäffers Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Schäffers Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Schäffers has its highest incidence in The Netherlands. It may appear in the variant forms: Schaffers. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Schäffers? popularity and diffusion
Schäffers is the 3,141,416th most frequently held last name at a global level, borne by around 1 in 186,860,152 people. The last name Schäffers occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Schäffers reside; 100 percent reside in Western Europe and 100 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most common in The Netherlands, where it is held by 37 people, or 1 in 456,410. In The Netherlands Schäffers is most frequent in: South Holland, where 43 percent live, Gelderland, where 38 percent live and North Holland, where 14 percent live. Excluding The Netherlands it exists in one country. It is also found in Germany, where 5 percent live.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Schäffers
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