Schule
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Alternative form of shul (“Ashkenazic synagogue”)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃʉlə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schule 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 Schule 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 Schüle in DE Germany 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)
school
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Schule is read(measured from records)
Schule is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English62%
Alternative form of shul (“Ashkenazic synagogue”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German15%
school
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
school (an institution dedicated to teaching and learning (especially before university); department/institute at a college or university; art movement; followers of a particular doctrine)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
from 'school'; also 'hiding place, hut'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Spanish9.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Schule in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schule 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Georg Christian Schuleb. 1764DKDanish etcher
- Albert Schuleb. 1801DEGerman etcher
- Fred Schuleb. 1879USAmerican hurdler (1879-1962)
- Christina Pugel-SchuleSISlovenian 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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 351 | #61,734 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 351 | #54,880 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 326 | #61,585 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 54 | #99,355 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Where does the name Schule come from?
- school Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- What are other forms of the name Schule?
- In the etymology graph, Schüler is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Schule?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃʉlə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Schule mean?
- In English, Alternative form of shul (“Ashkenazic synagogue”).
- In which country does Schule have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Schule in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schüle.
- How common is the name Schule?
- In the United States, the national register counted 326 people named Schule in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Schule?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schuleThe 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, “Schule”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.