Family name origins & meanings
- German (also Schächer) : derogatory nickname from Middle High German schāchære ‘robber’, ‘swindler’.
- German : variant of Schach 1.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : derogatory nickname from Yiddish shakher ‘petty traffic’, ‘bartering’, or ‘cheating’; or from the Polish word szacher ‘swindler’.