The Scheffel surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,028 people carried this name — #24,370 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 285,700 people counted. That is up 3% from 998 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 60 people named Scheffel.
12 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 7 départements, most often Haut-Rhin.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
47 people named Scheffel live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
59 people named Scheffel is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Scheffel,
with a public archive behind them.
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Johan Henrik Scheffel 1690–1781 · painter -
Margareta Catharina Scheffel 1736– · artist -
Johann Daniel Scheffel d. 1768 · teacher
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Johann Scheffel 1501–1554 · politician
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Johann Adam Scheffel 1664–1693 · jurist
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Christian Stephan Scheffel 1693–1760 · university teacher
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Scheffel.
- Schaub 6,027 · U.S. census
- Schauber 201 · U.S. census
- Schauer 5,463 · U.S. census
- Schaufelberger 196 · U.S. census
- Scheck 1,949 · U.S. census
- Scheer 5,719 · U.S. census
- Scheffer 1,763 · U.S. census
- Scheffler 4,052 · U.S. census
- Schehr 428 · U.S. census
- Scheibel 628 · U.S. census
- Scheiber 968 · U.S. census
- Scheid 3,393 · U.S. census
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