Schreibers Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

The last name Schreibers is another written form of Schreiber, a German family name. The family name meaning is “Scribe, clerk”, the same as for Schreiber. The extra ending in Schreibers is patronymic: it identified a person as belonging to Schreiber's family. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.

Related forms: Schriever and Schreyber.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Schreibers, so the heraldry linked to Schreiber is a starting point, not an automatic right. Get the complete Schreibers report, with a museum-style coat of arms.