Last name: SHAFER
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SHAFER : This last name is indexed 36,084 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SHAFER : 1: Americanized form of German Schäfer (see Schaefer) Schäffer (see Schaffer 2) or Schaffer 1.2: Americanized form of Hungarian Sáfár Slovenian and Croatian Šafar or Šafer Czech Šafář or Šafer Slovak Šafár in part cognates of names in 1 above (see Safar). Compare Shaffer 2.
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