Schüle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a shoemaker; from shoe nickname
/ʃylə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schüle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 51K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Schüle itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Schule in US United States, CH Switzerland, PK Pakistan and Schuele in BZ Belize.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
occupational name for a shoemaker; from shoe nickname
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schüle counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 40K | listed | Schüle | 74 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 262K | — | Schule | 1 |
| US United States | 326 | 1 in 1M | 351 | Schule | 138 |
| CH Switzerland | 166 | 1 in 51K | 166 | Schule | 11 |
| BR Brazil | 54 | 1 in 3.9M | 54 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 234K | listed | — | 3 |
| BZ Belize | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Schuele | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Schüle is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Wahrscheinlich zu mhd. schiel/schël 'schielend'; die Karte zeigt Vokalvariation Schüle ~ Schiele ~ Schyle. Bearer counts: 2010, 2299, 25.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Entrundung von mhd. üe > ie; Diminutiv zu mhd. schuoch 'Schuh', also Schuhmacher oder Träger auffälliger Schuhe.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Übername zu mhd. schuoch ‘Schuh’, dimin. schuohelîn, schüehel(în). Plate demonstrates üe > ie vowel change.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Name mit ü/ie-Variation; belegt ist die Form Schiele als Entrundungs- bzw. Schreibvariante zu Schüle.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Albert Schüleb. 1890DEGerman politician (1890–1947)
- Ernest Schüleb. 1912CHSwiss ethnologist (1912-1989)
- Erwin Schüleb. 1913DEGerman prosecutor (1913–1993)
- Rose-Claire Schüleb. 1921CHSwiss ethnologist (1921-2015)
- Helga Schnabel-Schüleb. 1954DEGerman historian of modern age
- Klaus Schüleb. 1963DEGerman politician
- Susanne Schüleb. 1967DEGerman cinematographer
- Susanne Schüleb. 1967DEGerman linguist
- Manja Schüleb. 1976DEGerman politician (SPD)
- Emilia Schüleb. 1992DEGerman actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 166 | #7,292 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Schüle mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a shoemaker; from shoe nickname Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Schüle?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃylə/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Schüle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Schüle in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schüle.
- How common is the name Schüle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 326 people named Schüle in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sch%C3%BCleThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Schüle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.