Skille
surname · Latin script
Meaning: divide, division, partition, dividing line
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/skiɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Skille is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 12K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 785K
- USUnited States1 in 3M
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
450 people
Reference-verified
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Skîllę in MX Mexico.
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)
divide, division, partition, dividing line
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Skille 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 450 | 1 in 12K | 450 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 110 | 1 in 3M | 114 | Skille | 6 |
| SE Sweden | 13 | 1 in 785K | 13 | — | — |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Skîllę | 2 |
| IS Iceland | — | — | listed | — | — |
450 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Skille 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 Danish, to separate (divide (a thing) into separate parts)
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)
- Jørn Skilleb. 1942NONorwegian civil servant
- Nan Bentzen Skilleb. 1945NONorwegian writer
- Øystein Skilleb. 1946NONorwegian author
- Alf Skilleb. 1955NONorwegian journalist and musician
- Eivind Åsrum Skilleb. 1971NONorwegian professor
- Jack Skilleb. 1987USAmerican ice hockey player
- Jakob Rømo Skilleb. 2001NONorwegian association football player
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Skille mean, and where does it come from?
- divide, division, partition, dividing line Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Skille?
- A machine transcription gives /skiɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Skille have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 450 people named Skille, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Skille most common?
- Skille is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Skille?
- In Norway, the national register counted 450 people named Skille, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Skille?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/skilleThe 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, “Skille”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.