Family name origins & meanings
- South German : from an agent derivative of Middle High German scharren ‘to scrape or scratch’; an occupational name for a wool carder, or a nickname for a miser.
- South German : habitational name for someone from any of various places, such as Scharr in Switzerland, Bavaria, and the Upper Palatinate, or Scharre in Saxony, named with Old High German scara ‘wooded area’.