Family name origins & meanings
- German and Dutch : nickname for a lumpish person or a farmer, from Middle High German, Middle Dutch scholle ‘clod of earth’.
- Dutch and North German : from Middle Dutch scholle, schulle ‘flounder’, ‘plaice’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or a fish seller, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a flouder.
- German (Schöll) : variant of Schell.