Skal
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/skəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Skal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 3.1M(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 223K
- CZCzechia1 in 892K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 223K (inferred from the name graph)
≈560 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Skal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | 3 | Skal | 3 |
| US United States | 108 | 1 in 3.1M | 112 | Skal | 89 |
| DE Germany | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Skal | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 4M | 12 | Skal | 27 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 223K | — | Skal | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 12 | 1 in 892K | 12 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Skal | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Skal is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Khmer, to be satisfied; abundant. p . Swnj to have enough sleep, (royal) WUWfll see
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume II (ម-អ)
In gem-pro, testicles
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Swedish, shell ((hard) external covering of an animal, egg, nut, various objects, etc. – used similarly to English)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, first/third-person singular present active indicative of skulu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, first/third-person singular present indicative of skulu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frr, first/third-person singular present of skel
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sali Skalb. 1874PLHolocaust victim (born 1874)
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)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 112 | #137,816 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 108 | #150,935 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 108 | #151,532 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 12 | #72,027 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 12 | #127,230 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #37,740 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Skal?
- A machine transcription gives /skəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Skal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 560 people named Skal in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled skal.
- How common is the name Skal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 108 people named Skal in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 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/skalThe 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, “Skal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.