Skala

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈskɑɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Skala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Czech Skála and Polish Skała.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 5K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 50K
  • CNChina≈1 in 76K

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 Skala 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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈18,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
79 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SkalaLatin(measured from records)
СкалаCyrillic(measured from records)
ΣκάλαGreek(measured from records)

3 other spellings are 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(measured from records)

Borrowed from Czech Skála and Polish Skała.

Sources 3

  • A Frequency Dictionary of German
  • Wiktionary
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Skala 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 Skala is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈18,000 est.≈1 in 76K—Skala2
US United States—3,537as Scala1 in 94K3.5KSkala77
CZ Czechia#5632,1411 in 5K2.1KSkala73
AR Argentina—743as Scala1 in 61K743Skala14
BR Brazil—690as Scala1 in 307K690Skala13
UY Uruguay—417as Scala1 in 8.1K417—1
CH Switzerland—120as Scala1 in 70K120Skala6
SI Slovenia—421 in 50K42—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; MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Skala is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, French

    Also written Skali, Skåla, Skaala, Skála, Skàlà

  • Croatian surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Italy, Serbia

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian

    Also written Škala, Scala, Скала, Skála

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Skála, Skālâ

  • Polish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Skali, Skála

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Skála, Škala

  • Finnish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Skála, Skåla

  • Swahili surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Kenya

    Also written Skála

29 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Skala 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 Kurdish, Lament, supplication, represents spiritual longing, deep emotional expression, and sincerity

    as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

  • In German, scale, dial, range

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, a scale (of measurement, including magnitude; on a map; in music)

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

  • In Polish, scale (numerical sequence used for measurement)

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

  • In German, scale, gamut (ordered numerical sequence)

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

  • In Icelandic, indefinite accusative singular of skali

    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)

1400160018002000Jan Dubravius, b. 1486Jan Skala, b. 1889Lilia Skala, b. 1896Jaroslav Skála, b. 1916Annfinnur í Skála, b. 1941Josef Skála, b. 1952Jaroslav Skála, b. 1954František Skála, b. 1956Viktor Skála, b. 1968Agnieszka Skala-Gosk, b. 1976

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 29 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Skala
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.7K#15,446
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.7K#16,488
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.7K#16,944
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—1.1K#1,180
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—1.1K#1,190
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—42#8,637
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—38#126,822
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202411#56,728
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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 Skala mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Czech Skála and Polish Skała. Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
How do you pronounce Skala?
A machine transcription gives /ˈskɑɫə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Skala have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Skala in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled skala.
Where is Skala most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Skala is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 5.0 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Skala?
In Czechia, the national register counted 2,141 people named Skala, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
How common is Skala compared with other names?
In Czechia, Skala is the 563rd most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Skala” — the 563rd most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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