Last name: SHAFFER
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SHAFFER : This last name is indexed 84,129 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SHAFFER : 1: Americanized form of German Schäffer (see Schaffer 2) Schaffer 1 or Schäfer (see Schaefer).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) or of their Germanized form Schaffer 3. Compare Shafer 2.
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