Last name: SCHAEFFER
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Last name frequency
SCHAEFFER : This last name is indexed 279,845 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SCHAEFFER : German (Schäffer):: 1: see Schaffer 2.2: variant of Schäfer (see Schaefer).
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