Skare

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a host, crowd

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025

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

Skare is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 754K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 3.4K
  • HRCroatia1 in 17K

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.

Norway (measured from records)

1,604 people

Record sources
128 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

a host, crowd

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Skare 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 Skare is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway1,6041 in 3.4K1.6KSkare22
US United States4411 in 754K441Skare128
HR Croatia2511 in 17K251—2
GB United Kingdom≈46 est.≈1 in 1.4M8Skare9
CA Canada≈41 est.≈1 in 917K—Skare20
DK Denmark341 in 173K34—1
SE Sweden231 in 444K23—3
BE Belgium≈21 est.≈1 in 558K—Skare1

1,604 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Skare is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Denmark, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written sKAAre, Skåre, Skååre, Skaåre, Skaaare

  • Croatian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States

    Also written Škare, Шкаре, Skåre

  • Spanish surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Colombia, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Skåre, Skäre, Škare

  • a separate surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

    Also written Skåre

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Skáre, Škare, Skåre

  • Polish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Škare, Skåre

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, United States, Egypt, Norway

    Also written Skåre

  • Hindi name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Skåre, Škare

28 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)

Skare is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Danish, a host, a crowd; a large number of people

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

  • In Swedish, a hard, icy surface on a snow cover

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

  • In Afrikaans, crowd

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

  • In Latvian, baznīcas tornis

    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)
18501900195020002050Astrid Skare, b. 1891Nils Skare, b. 1945Siri Skare, b. 1958Vesna Škare-Ožbolt, b. 1961Per K Skare, b. 1985Kaja Skare, b. 1995Øivind Skare, b. 2000Daniel Skare, b. 2003

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 Skare,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Skare
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.6K#640
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2024809—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2023808—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2021805—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025802—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2022802—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2020802—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2019797—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2018796—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010441#47,966
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020417#53,526
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000417#47,735

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Skare mean, and where does it come from?
a host, crowd Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Skare?
In the etymology graph, Schiera is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Skare?
A machine transcription gives /ˈskɛɹ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Skare have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Skare, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled skare.
Where is Skare most common?
Skare is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.4 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Skare?
In Norway, the national register counted 1,604 people named Skare, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.

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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, “Skare”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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