In Croatia, Schafer families are Croats (from Daruvar area ).
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Schafer live in Croatia today, in four households only. They are only located in four Croatian cities and four other places, mostly in Zagreb (<5), Mursko Sredisce (<5), Split (<5), Bibinje in Zadar area (<5), and in Grubisno Polje (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.