Schaerer Family Crest & Name History

Clerks wrote Scherer in many ways, and Schaerer is one that stuck. At root, the name means “Shearer, barber”. Before spelling was fixed, Scherer was also written Schaerer. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. Related forms: Sherer.

French civil records give 277 births under the name Schaerer from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1971–1980. There were 8 such births in the 1890s and 44 in the 1990s.

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