Shaffer Family History
Shaffer Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Schäffer (see Schaffer ) Schaffer 1 or Schäfer (see Schaefer ). 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 Compare Shafer
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022