Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch and German : from Middle Dutch scholle, schulle, Middle Low German schulle, Middle High German schülle ‘plaice’, either a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or seller of these fish, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a plaice. Compare Scholl 2.
- Dutch and German : nickname for a short, thickset person, from Middle Dutch, Middle High German scholle ‘clod of earth’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the personal name Schaul (see Saul).