Skalka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: diminutive of skála; little rock, rocklet
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Skalka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 29K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 74K
- DKDenmark1 in 255K
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 Skalka 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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
366 people
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 Скалка in UA Ukraine, RU Russia.
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)diminutive of skála; little rock, rocklet
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Skalka is found
(measured from records)Skalka 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.
366 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Skalka is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Slovak, diminutive of skala; little rock, rocklet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In got, romanization of 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌺𐌰
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, ezers Zviedrijā, Norbotenas lēnes vidusdaļā
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Emanuel Skalkab. 1877CZCzech sculptor (1877-1909)
- Miloš Skalkab. 1947CZCzech disc-jockey, journalist and music editor and
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Skalka mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of skála; little rock, rocklet Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Skalka?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 366 people named Skalka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled skalka. After it come United States, Ukraine, Russia and Slovakia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Skalka most common?
- Skalka is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 29 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Skalka?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 366 people named Skalka, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Skalka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/skalkaThe 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, “Skalka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.