Shaer

surname · English · Latin script

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

Shaer is a surname, most frequently recorded in Switzerland. It appears chiefly in English and Arabic, 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, Schar in CH Switzerland, AR Argentina, BR Brazil, Schaer in DE Germany, UA Ukraine, RU Russia 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.

Where in the world●

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

Where Shaer 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●

  • English3.4K44%
  • Arabic2.4K32%
  • Spanish2413%
  • Hebrew2063%
  • 1582%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English3,38844%
Arabic2,42932%
Spanish2413%
Hebrew2063%
1582%

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◐

Shaer is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hebrew surname237 records spelled Shaer4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Syria, India

    Also written שאער, שער, Shaar

37 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.

Notable people with this name●

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 11 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Shaer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020317#67,188
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010300#65,964
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000299#62,577
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—38#126,822
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20264—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4#239,660
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243#154,370
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#392,275
EE EstoniaSiseministeerium — population register name list 20232023——
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 11 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Shaer?
We estimate roughly 729 people bear Shaer (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
In which country does Shaer have the most bearers?
Shaer 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, “Shaer”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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