Scholle Family Crest & Name History

If your family name is Scholle, its origin lies with Scholl, a long-established German surname. Its meaning, shared with Scholl, is “clod of earth”. Scholle adds “e” to Scholl, a small change that crept in as the name was written down. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

The same family of names includes Scholz.

Arms linked to Scholl and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Scholle report, with a museum-style coat of arms.