Skåra

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Norwegian: definite plural of skår

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Skåra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.

  • NONorway1 in 14K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 292K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 764K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.

Norway (measured from records)

384 people

Record sources
15 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Skara in SE Sweden, IN India.

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)

a notch, a groove, a score (elongated depression (as) from a cut)

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

How Skåra is read

(measured from records)

Skåra is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Norwegian21%

    definite plural of skår

    as a wordrecorded as Norwegian Bokmålkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Swedish12%

    a notch, a groove, a score (elongated depression (as) from a cut)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where the surname Skåra is found

(measured from records)

Skåra 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.

Where Skåra is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway3841 in 14K384Skåra15
SE Sweden351 in 292K35Skara1
CH Switzerland111 in 764K11——
BE Belgium11 in 12M1—1
IN India———Skara2

384 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Skåra is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Norway

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Škara, Skara, Škára

  • Norwegian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, United Kingdom, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Skaara

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Škara, Skara, Škára

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written 스카라, Skára, Skara

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Skara

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Škara, Skara

6 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence

(measured from records)

2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Skåra come from?
a notch, a groove, a score (elongated depression (as) from a cut) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What does the name Skåra mean?
In Norwegian, definite plural of skår
Which countries have the most people with the surname Skåra?
In Norway, the national register counted about 384 people named Skåra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled skåra. After it come Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Skåra most common?
Skåra is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Skåra?
In Norway, the national register counted 384 people named Skåra, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.

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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, “Skåra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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