Skok
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Polish: jump, leap, vault
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈskɑk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Skok is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 29Kas Скок(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 73Kas Скок
- SISlovenia1 in 1.8K
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 Skok 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 named Скок, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Скок in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus.
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)jump, leap, vault
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Skok is read
(measured from records)Skok is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English54%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Skok in English.
- Ukrainian17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Skok in Ukrainian.
- Polish13%
jump, leap, vault
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Croatian7.8%
jump
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
saltos; prezime
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-CroatianSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Skok 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Скок | 115 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Скок | 33 |
| SI Slovenia | #281 | 1,156 | 1 in 1.8K | 1.2K | Skok | 27 |
| US United States | — | 600 | 1 in 554K | 600 | Skok | 29 |
| PL Poland | — | 598 | 1 in 64K | 300 | Skok | 31 |
| HR Croatia | — | 250 | 1 in 17K | 250 | Skok | 28 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Скок | 13 |
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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)Skok is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dsb, jump (instance of propelling oneself into the air; instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, past of skaka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aaq, snake
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)- Petar Skokb. 1881HRCroatian linguist (1881-1956)
- Viacheslav Skokb. 1946RURussian water polo player
- Janez Skokb. 1963SISlovenian canoeist
- Miha Skokb. 1973SISlovene architect, born 1973
- Renata Świrgoń-Skokb. 1973PLPolish jurist and university teacher
- Matevž Skokb. 1986SISlovenian handball player
- Vasil SkokBYBelarusian politician
- Beata Galińska-SkokPLPolish psychiatrist and radiologist
- Aleš SkokSIresearcher
- Vladimir SkokSIresearcher
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 1.2K | #130 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 600 | #37,180 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 573 | #36,761 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 563 | #41,648 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 300 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 300 | #11,097 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 298 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 298 | #10,978 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 250 | #3,311 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 206 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- 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
- What does the name Skok mean, and where does it come from?
- jump, leap, vault Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Skok?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈskɑk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Skok have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Скок in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Skok most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Skok is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 1.8 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Skok?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 1,156 people named Skok, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Skok compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Skok is the 281st most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Skok?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/skokThe 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, “Skok” — the 281st most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.