Skoba
surname · Latin script
Meaning: shackle, staple (U-shaped metal fastener)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/skoʊbə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Skoba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 122Kas Скоба(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 362Kas Скоба
- LVLatvia≈1 in 198K
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 Skoba 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 198K (inferred from the name graph)
≈390 named Скоба, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Скоба in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more.
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)
shackle, staple (U-shaped metal fastener)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Skoba 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 362K | — | Скоба | 89 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Скоба | 26 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 166K | 52 | Скоба | 25 |
| US United States | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 6.8M | — | Skoba | 5 |
| PL Poland | 24 | 1 in 1.6M | 16 | — | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | 14 | 1 in 764K | 14 | — | 2 |
| LV Latvia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 198K | — | Скоба | 1 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Skoba is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In sla-pro, bracket, shackle, cramp
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, staple (fastener)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kea, brush
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, fibula, retinaculum, engeča, kvačica, spona
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
In Latvian, Skava
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 16 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 16 | #103,630 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 14 | #65,161 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #157,967 |
Reference works 2
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Skoba mean, and where does it come from?
- shackle, staple (U-shaped metal fastener) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Skoba?
- A machine transcription gives /skoʊbə/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Skoba have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 392 people named Скоба in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Skoba?
- In Poland, the national register counted 24 people named Skoba in 2026, about 1 in 1.6 million 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/skobaThe 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, “Skoba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.