Shafter

Where Shafter comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Shafter.

Shafter through the years
  1. 1898
    Debut at its peak, #573
    #573 among boys with 14 babies in the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1899
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Shafter in Wikidata.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.