Frequency: (109)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German (Schüle): 1. occupational name for a maker or repairer of shoes, from a diminutive of Middle High German schuoch ‘shoe’ (see Schuh). 2. variant of Schiele‘cross-eyed’, altered by folk etymology in such a way that it conforms to the German word Schule ‘school’.
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