The Scheer Name: Records, Origin and Blazon

Before any talk of crests, here are the plain facts about Scheer. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Scheer with 5,719 bearers, at rank 6,015. INSEE counts 1,300 people born in France with the Scheer surname between 1891 and 2000; the busiest decade was 1961–1970.

Scheer coat of arms

Sharing the Scheer name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families.

Researching the origin

The meaning of Scheer is not given in the reference works we use for these short pages; a full report traces it from your own family's records.

Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Schauer. Get the complete Scheer report, with a museum-style coat of arms.