Schöller

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Occupational/trait surname from MHG schal/ schellic 'loud, boisterous, wild'; bearer count 888

Schöller is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 59K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 751K
  • ATAustria≈1 in 24K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,400 people, est.

Sources
143 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)

Austria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Scholler in US United States, PY Paraguay, CH Switzerland.

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)

Occupational/trait surname from MHG schal/ schellic 'loud, boisterous, wild'; bearer count 888.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Schöller 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.

Where Schöller is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 59KlistedSchöller85
FR France—≈500 est.≈1 in 136K65—3
US United States—4431 in 751K522Scholler143
AT Austria—≈370 est.≈1 in 24K—Schöller42
PY Paraguay#865≈140 est.≈1 in 51K—Scholler9
CH Switzerland—531 in 159K53Scholler13

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 2000; the dfa-band-5 register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Schöller is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Scholler

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Switzerland

    Also written Scholler

  • Croatian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Also written Scholler

  • Hungarian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary

    Also written Scholler

  • Danish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States

    Also written Scholler

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Scholler

13 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Schöller 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 German, Übername: zu Schaller/Scheller, 'Schwätzer' bzw. 'Ausrufer'; 888 Belege.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

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)

18501900195020002050Pauline Schöller, b. 1859Oscar Schöller, b. 1882Theo Schöller, b. 1919Reinhold Schöller, b. 1922Peter Schöller, b. 1923Matthias Schöller, b. 1964Jakob Schöller, b. 2005

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Schöller
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202453#17,837
DE GermanyDeutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Schöller mean, and where does it come from?
Occupational/trait surname from MHG schal/ schellic 'loud, boisterous, wild'; bearer count 888. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
In which country does Schöller have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Schöller in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schöller.
How common is the name Schöller?
In the United States, the national register counted 443 people named Schöller in 2010, about 1 in 751 thousand residents.
How common is Schöller compared with other names?
In Paraguay, Schöller is the 865th most common surname of 30,328 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Schöller” — the 865th most common surname in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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