Skär
surname · Latin script
Meaning: pink (having a color between red and white, sometimes with a hint of beige, as in the skin color of white people)
Skär is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1M(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 2K
- FIFinland1 in 186K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Skär itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
2,780 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Skar in US United States, NO Norway, SE Sweden and 1 more and Skaer in GB United Kingdom, DE Germany, IE Ireland.
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)pink (having a color between red and white, sometimes with a hint of beige, as in the skin color of white people)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Skär 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 2,780 | 1 in 2K | 2.8K | Skar | 32 |
| US United States | 331 | 1 in 1M | 337 | Skar | 139 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 789K | — | Skar | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Skaer | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 12 | Skaer | 31 |
| SE Sweden | 33 | 1 in 309K | 33 | Skar | 6 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 28 | 1 in 210K | 28 | — | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 353K | — | Skaer | 1 |
2,780 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population), counting the spelling skår. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Skär mean, and where does it come from?
- pink (having a color between red and white, sometimes with a hint of beige, as in the skin color of white people) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Skär have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Skär, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled skar.
- Where is Skär most common?
- Skär is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Skär?
- In Norway, the national register counted 2,780 people named Skär, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sk%C3%A4rThe 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, “Skär”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.