Škala
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Škala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Czech Skála and Polish Skała.
- CZCzechia1 in 5K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 50K
- HRCroatia1 in 75K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Škala itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
3,537 named Scala, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Skala in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Czech Skála and Polish Skała.
Cited for this meaning 3
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
- Wiktionary
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Škala is found
(measured from records)Škala counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,537as Scala | 1 in 94K | 3.5K | Skala | 13 |
| CZ Czechia | 2,141 | 1 in 5K | 2.1K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 743as Scala | 1 in 61K | 743 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 690as Scala | 1 in 307K | 690 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 417as Scala | 1 in 8.1K | 417 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 120as Scala | 1 in 70K | 120 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | 42 | 1 in 50K | 42 | — | 2 |
3,537 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling scala. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Škala mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Czech Skála and Polish Skała. Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Škala?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Scala, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Czechia, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Škala most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Škala is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 5.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Škala?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 2,141 people named Škala, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1kalaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Škala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.