In Croatia, Šifer families are Croats (from Dubrovnik ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Šifer live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in two Croatian cities only, in Sesvete (<5) and Dubrovnik (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.