How common is the surname Scholes?

1,771 people in the United States had the surname Scholes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 174,334 Americans. It ranked 16,284th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Scholes?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Scholes identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Scholes?

Clarke Scholes, American swimmer (1930–2010).

Where is the surname Scholes most common?

Wikidata records people named Scholes in the United States.

Is the surname Scholes getting more or less common?

More common. 1,688 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,771 in 2010, up 4.9%.

The surname Scholes

A Norse place surname, carried by 1,771 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S420

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Scholes is more common than 90% of them.

Origin

Norse origin

Ultimately from Old Norse skáli (“hut, shed”). Doublet of Scales.

Scholes is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,771 people named Scholes in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 174,334 Americans. That is up 4.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,688.

#16,284

rank among US surnames

1,771

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+4.9%

change since 2000 (was #15,835)

Who is named Scholes

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

93% of people named Scholes identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Scholess

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Clarke Scholes
American swimmer (1930–2010)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Surnames that sound like Scholes

Scholes has the Soundex code S420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S420.

Other Norse surnames

All 126 Norse surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Scholes come from?: Ultimately from Old Norse skáli (“hut, shed”). Doublet of Scales.
How common is the surname Scholes?: 1,771 people in the United States had the surname Scholes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 174,334 Americans. It ranked 16,284th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Scholes?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Scholes identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Scholes?: Clarke Scholes, American swimmer (1930–2010).
Where is the surname Scholes most common?: Wikidata records people named Scholes in the United States.
What type of surname is Scholes?: Scholes is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Scholes getting more or less common?: More common. 1,688 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,771 in 2010, up 4.9%.
What are other spellings of Scholes?: Scoles and Sholes.