Scholastica
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Greek scholastikos 'scholarly, learned'
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/stʃolɑstica/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Scholastica is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 58K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 97K
- SESweden1 in 1.5M
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 Scholastica itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 named Skolastika, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Skolastika in ID Indonesia, US United States, TZ Tanzania and 1 more.
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)from Greek scholastikos 'scholarly, learned'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Scholastica 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Skolastika | 53 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Skolastika | 8 |
| IN India | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 5M | — | Skolastika | 3 |
| US United States | 189 | 1 in 1.8M | 186 | Skolastika | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 179 | 1 in 97K | 174 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 13 | 1 in 58K | 13 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Scholastica is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, inflection of scholasticus:
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)- Scholasticab. 480ITItalian saint
- Scholastika of Saxe-Wittenbergb. 1391PLnot in their usual name(1391-1461)
- Scholastika Anderallmendb. 1647CHnot in their usual name(1647-1722)
- Scholastica Ruttenb. 1804BEperson (1804-1836)
- Sophia Scholastica Verscheureb. 1838BEperson (1838-1918)
- Princess Margarita of Badenb. 1932DEnot in their usual namedaughter of Berthold, Margrave of Baden, and Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1932–2013)
- Scholastica Kimaryob. 1949TZTanzanian journalist and international civil servant
- Scholastica Hermanb. 2003PGPapua New Guinean athlete
- Scholastica Scherpereelmother of Florimond Vanden Bulcke
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 186 | #39,783 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 174 | #3,946 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 25 | #17,304 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 13 | #581 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #41,549 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1914 | 5 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5 | #27,027 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #39,783 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Scholastica mean, and where does it come from?
- from Greek scholastikos 'scholarly, learned' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Scholastica?
- In the etymology graph, Scholastique is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Scholastica?
- In Swahili /stʃolɑstica/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Scholastica a male or female name?
- Scholastica is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- In which country does Scholastica have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Skolastika in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Scholastica most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Scholastica is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 58 thousand people — even though Indonesia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Scholastica?
- In the United States, the national register counted 189 people named Scholastica in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/scholasticaThe 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, “Scholastica”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.