Meaning & origin
What it means
Scholes goes back to Old Norse skáli, meaning “hut, shed.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Scholes’s family of names
In English usage, Scholes as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with SCALES.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
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Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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