Schaft Family History
Schaft Name Meaning
German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a maker of wooden shafts for tools or weapons from Middle High German Middle Low German Middle Dutch schaft. Compare Shaft . Dutch (Van der Schaft): topographic name of the same origin as 1 above possibly for someone who lived by a long hollow or a habitational name for someone from Schaft in North Brabant.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022