Schaer

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Schaer is a surname, most frequently recorded in Switzerland. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.5K◐
  • CACanada1 in 24K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 27K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈729 ●

across 1 country

Sources
231 ●

169K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 456K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

SharLatin · English●132K records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Shar in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 11 more, Shaer in EG Egypt, SY Syria, IL Israel and 5 more, Schar in CH Switzerland, AR Argentina, BR Brazil and Zhar in MA Morocco, BE Belgium.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Schaer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CH Switzerland15,5201.1K rec.—6.3KSchar58
GB United Kingdom7,7267.9K rec.——Shar62
CA Canada3,4213.5K rec.——Shar51
AU Australia2,8703K rec.—1Shar57
DE Germany2,5672.4K rec.——Schaer62
IT Italy1,1871.2K rec.——Shar7
EG Egypt842227 rec.——Shaer54
US United States729134K rec.1 in 456K790Shar231
PH Philippines599600 rec.——Shar17
IN India543558 rec.—38Shar35
SY Syria512568 rec.——Shaer9
AR Argentina511377 rec.—108Schar19

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English7.7K54%
  • German2.6K18%
  • Spanish1.4K10%
  • French1.2K8%
  • Portuguese2712%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English7,67854%
German2,62518%
Spanish1,40210%
French1,1888%
Portuguese2712%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Schaer is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname1.8K records spelled Schaer5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Switzerland

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Schäer, Schâer, Schaër

  • French surname1.3K records spelled Schaer4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Schàer, Schaër

  • a separate surname228 records spelled Schaer2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland

    Also written Schäer

  • Danish surname112 records spelled Schaer6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Denmark, Iceland

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Schær

  • Hindi surname47 records spelled Schaer3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Schäer

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

0102030401900192019401960198031 · 1951

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Schaer in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
189118
190115
191119
192118
193110
194114
195131
196120
197128
198127
199113

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18501900195020002050Adolf Schaer, b. 1853Ida Schär-Krause, b. 1877Roland Schaer, b. 1947Gary Schaer, b. 1951Andrés G. Schaer, b. 1971Philipp Schaer, b. 1980Ronja Schaer, b. 2006

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 18 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Schaer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000790#28,433
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010778#30,139
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020774#31,961
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024174#7,026
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—108—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—52#102,017
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195131—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197128—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198127—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—26#37,147
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196120—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191119—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 27 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Schaer?
We estimate roughly 729 people bear Schaer (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
In which country does Schaer have the most bearers?
Schaer is most frequently recorded in Switzerland, where it is most often spelled schar.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Schaer”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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