Šola
org · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/ʃóːla/(recorded in a dictionary) Slovenian · from Wiktionary
Šola is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country: 16,413 people, counted by INE. Recorded meaning: From Hindi सोला (solā, “the plant Aeschynomene aspera”), from Bengali শোলা (śōla). Šola is also written Шола in Cyrillic.
- ESSpain1 in 3K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 6.6K
- ARArgentina1 in 9.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
16,413 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Šola in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sola in ES Spain, US United States, HR Croatia.
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.
How to pronounce Šola
- Slovenian:/ʃóːla/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Hindiसोलाsolā“the plant Aeschynomene aspera”(measured from records)
- Bengaliশোলাśōla(measured from records)
From Hindi सोला (solā, “the plant Aeschynomene aspera”), from Bengali শোলা (śōla).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Šola is found
(measured from records)Šola 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.
16,413 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)Šola 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 Slovenian, school (an institution dedicated to teaching and learning)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yag, light
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Skola Kuršu kāpās
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Ivan Šolab. 1961HRCroatian motorcycle racer and bobsledder
- Vlado Šolab. 1968HRCroatian handball player
- Antonija Šolab. 1979HRCroatian pop singer
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Šola mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hindi सोला (solā, “the plant Aeschynomene aspera”), from Bengali শোলা (śōla). Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Šola?
- In Slovenian /ʃóːla/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Šola?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Šola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sola. After it come Argentina, United States, Brazil and Norway; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Šola most common?
- Šola is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Šola?
- In Spain, the national register counted 16,413 people named Šola, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Šola?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1olaThe 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, “Šola” — ranked 320th in Spain (INE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.