Scola
surname · Latin script
Meaning: do gr. skholé via lat
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈskoʊɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Scola is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 101K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 278K
- UYUruguay1 in 16K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 250 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
do gr. skholé via lat. schola; pessoa douta ou mestre
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Scola 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Scola | 32 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Scola | 1 |
| US United States | 1,198 | 1 in 278K | 1.3K | Scola | 250 |
| BR Brazil | 932 | 1 in 227K | 932 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 101K | 91 | Scola | 63 |
| UY Uruguay | 212 | 1 in 16K | 212 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 82 | 1 in 102K | 82 | Scola | 14 |
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 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual register; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Scola 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 ang, nominative/accusative/genitive plural of sċolu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, nominative/vocative/accusative plural of scol
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lld, school
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)
- Kathryn Scolab. 1891USAmerican screenwriter
- Alberto Scolab. 1900Roman Catholic bishop
- Ettore Scolab. 1931ITItalian screenwriter and film director (1931–2016)
- Gigliola Scolab. 1931ITItalian film director
- Angelo Scolab. 1941ITCardinal of the Catholic Church and Archbishop Emeritus of Milan
- Paola Scolab. 1957ITItalian screenwriter
- Gioia Scolab. 1961ITItalian actress
- Luis Scolab. 1980ARArgentine basketball player (born 1980)
- Fulvio Scolab. 1982ITItalian cross-country skier
- Silvia Scolascreenwriter (fl. since the 1980s)
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)
Attested in 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,281 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,343 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,717 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 932 | #9,908 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 212 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 91 | #35,127 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 82 | #12,870 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- How do you pronounce Scola?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈskoʊɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Scola mean?
- Recorded meaning: do gr. skholé via lat.
- In which country does Scola have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Scola in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled scola.
- Where is Scola most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Scola is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Scola?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,198 people named Scola in 2010, about 1 in 278 thousand 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/scolaThe 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, “Scola”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.