Schachtmaier Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

Written in a baptism entry or a ship's list, Schachtmaier usually leads back to Schacht. The family name meaning is “A miner, or someone living by a shaft or a ridge”, the same as for Schacht.

Family crest and blazon

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Schachtmaier, so the heraldry linked to Schacht is a starting point, not an automatic right.

A variant of Schacht

Schachtmaier adds -maier to the root of Schacht, a familiar way of forming related surnames. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. Related forms: Schachtmeier, Schachtmeyer and Schachtmann.

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