Given name & surname
Sheaffer
“shepherd”
Sheaffer is a surname, probably from German.
Original GermanSchäfer
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sheaffer probably goes back to German Schäfer, meaning “shepherd.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Sheaffer’s family of names
In English usage, Sheaffer as a surname was borrowed from the German form Schäfer.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
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