Schaff Surname: Origin, Meaning & Coat of Arms

If a Schaff family bore arms, our report explains whose they were and what the blazon shows.

In the records

Counting heads is the honest place to start with Schaff.

Where a surname's origin is uncertain, as with Schaff, the best clues come from your own ancestors' parish and civil records. Census returns, passenger lists and civil registers are the best places to follow a Schaff line back. Schaff ranked 11,035 in the 2010 US Census, with 2,881 people answering to the name. French civil records give 1,109 births under the name Schaff from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1951–1960. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Schiff.

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