Etymology

Schuyler

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Today it means: An American surname from Dutch [in turn originating as an occupation]. Full definition →

German Schüler
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The story

  1. German · derived fromSchüler“scholar, student”
  2. English todaySchuyler

A Dutch surname (cf. scholier) from German Schüler (“scholar, student”); brought to America by seventeenth-century Dutch immigrants. Doublet of scholar and schooler.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.