Scholes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person who lives in a hut, or from Scholes or Scales; from Old Norse skali ‘hut, shed’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Scholes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 37K
- USUnited States1 in 188K
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 277 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Scholesor(measured from records)
- Old Norseskali(measured from records)
person who lives in a hut, or from Scholes or Scales; from Old Norse skali ‘hut, shed’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Scholes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 4K | Scholes | 166 |
| US United States | 1,771 | 1 in 188K | 1.8K | Scholes | 277 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Scholes | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Scholes | 79 |
| GH Ghana | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Scholes | 8 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Scholes | 32 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Percy Scholesb. 1877GBBritish journalist (1877-1958)
- George Scholesb. 1928CACanadian ice hockey player (1928-2004)
- Robert Scholesb. 1929USAmerican academic (1929–2016)
- Clarke Scholesb. 1930USAmerican swimmer (1930–2010)
- Gordon Scholesb. 1931AUAustralian politician (1931–2018)
- Myron Scholesb. 1941CACanadian economist
- Roger Scholesb. 1950AUAustralian film director
- Ken Scholesb. 1968USAmerican writer
- Paul Scholesb. 1974GBEnglish association football player
- Rachel Scholesb. 1992GBcricketer (born 1992)
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 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 4K | #1,975 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,284 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,835 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,182 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 Scholes mean, and where does it come from?
- person who lives in a hut, or from Scholes or Scales; from Old Norse skali ‘hut, shed’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Scholes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Scholes in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled scholes.
- How common is the name Scholes?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,771 people named Scholes in 2010, about 1 in 188 thousand residents.
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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, “Scholes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.