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The scherer Surname

scherer Name Meaning and History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a sheep-shearer or someone who used scissors to trim the surface of finished cloth and remove excessive nap, from German Scherer, Yiddish sherer, agent derivatives of Middle High German scheren ‘to shear’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of scherer Families in the US in 1920
Number of scherer families
 164-326
 55-163		 1-54
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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