Schole
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete spelling of school
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃoʊl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schole is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 365K(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 495K
- CACanada≈1 in 1.2M
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 Schole 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
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 365K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120 named Schoele, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Schoele in DE Germany.
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)
Obsolete spelling of school.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schole 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 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 665K | — | Schoele | 41 |
| US United States | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 8.1M | listed | Schole | 50 |
| CA Canada | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Schole | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | 23 | 1 in 365K | 23 | Schole | 4 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 495K | — | Schole | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 14 | 1 in 1.2M | 14 | Schole | 5 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Schole is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, singular past subjunctive of schuilen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dum, school (institute of learning)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, A shoal; a group of fish.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Marian Scholeb. 1986CACanadian field hockey player
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 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 23 | #33,003 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 14 | #56,989 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Schole mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete spelling of school. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Schole?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃoʊl/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Schole have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 121 people named Schoele in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Schole most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schole is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 365 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Schole?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 23 people named Schole in 2024, about 1 in 365 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Schole?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/scholeThe 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, “Schole”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.