as a Last Name
- 12,912
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Scherer
Meaning & Origins
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a sheepshearer or someone who used scissors to trim the surface of finished cloth and remove excessive nap, from German Scherer, Yiddish sherer, agent derivatives of Middle High German scheren ‘to shear’.
| 2,425th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 12,912
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Wisconsin
- has the most people named Scherer per capita
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