Skarpa

surname · Latin script

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

Skarpa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: shoe; footwear.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 25K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 87K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Croatia (measured from records)

166 people, 2021

Sources
25 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Škarpa in HR Croatia.

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)

shoe; footwear

Sources 1

  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Skarpa 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 Skarpa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia1661 in 25K166Škarpa25
CZ Czechia1231 in 87K123——

166 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

Skarpa is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Škarpa

  • Czech surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Škarpa

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Chile, United States

    Also written Škarpa

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Škarpa

  • Greek surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece

    Also written Σκάρπα, Σκαρπα

18 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)

Skarpa 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 Polish, escarpment (in fortifications)

    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)

Attested in 2 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 2

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 Skarpa mean, and where does it come from?
shoe; footwear Recorded by Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
In which country does Skarpa have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 166 people named Skarpa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled škarpa.
Where is Skarpa most common?
Skarpa is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 25 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Skarpa?
In Croatia, the national register counted 166 people named Skarpa in 2021, about 1 in 25 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, “Skarpa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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