Find out how popular the last name Scholler is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Scholler.

Scholler, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Scholler surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Scholler in America

Scholler is the 47791st most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Scholler surname appeared 443 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Scholler.

We can also compare 2010 data for Scholler to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Scholler

The surname SCHOLLER is of German origin, derived from the occupation of a schoolteacher or scholar. It likely emerged in the late medieval period, around the 13th or 14th century, when education and literacy began spreading beyond just the clergy.

The name is rooted in the Middle High German word "schuolære," meaning a schoolmaster or teacher. It's believed to have first arisen in regions like Bavaria, where some of the earliest examples of the name can be found in historical records.

One notable early reference is in the Nuremberg Chronicles, a famous illustrated world history published in 1493, which mentions a scholar named Hartmann Scholler from the city of Nuremberg.

In the 16th century, the name appears in various spellings like Schöller, Scholer, and Schöllen in church registers and tax records across southern Germany and parts of Austria.

One of the earliest known bearers of the name was Hans Scholler, a chronicler and Protestant reformer from Nuremberg, born around 1480. Another was Johann Scholler, a 16th-century pastor and theologian from Bavaria.

The name gained prominence in the 17th century with figures like Johann Ernst Scholler, a German educator and author of textbooks on arithmetic and geometry, born in 1622 in Silesia.

Over time, the name spread to other parts of Europe and beyond through migration. In the 18th century, Christoph Scholler, a German immigrant, settled in Pennsylvania and served as a military leader during the American Revolutionary War.

Another notable bearer was Johann Georg Scholler, a 19th-century German astronomer and mathematician, born in 1824 in Württemberg, who made significant contributions to celestial mechanics.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Scholler

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Scholler.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Scholler was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Scholler has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Scholler was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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