Shkaf
surname · Latin script
Shkaf is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Shkaf is also written Шкаф in Cyrillic.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54Kas Skaf(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 276Kas Skaf
- NONorway1 in 683Kas Skaf
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 Shkaf 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
287 named Skaf
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis, as Skaf
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Shkaf in other scripts: Cyrillic and Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Shkaf is found
(measured from records)Shkaf 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 287as Skaf | 1 in 738K | 287 | — | — |
| US United States | 194as Skaf | 1 in 1.7M | 256 | Shkaf | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 37as Skaf | 1 in 276K | 37 | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 37as Skaf | 1 in 1.2M | 37 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 36as Skaf | 1 in 1.4M | 36 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 8as Skaf | 1 in 683K | 8 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 1as Skaf | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
287 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)Shkaf is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Uzbek, shelf
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Shkaf?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 287 people named Skaf, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Sweden, Argentina and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Shkaf most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Shkaf itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is St. Kitts & Nevis's: the national register counts about 1 in 54 thousand people named Skaf.
- How common is the name Shkaf?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 287 people named Skaf, about 1 in 738 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Shkaf?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shkafThe 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, “Shkaf” — ranked 27442nd in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.