Skop
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Polish: wether (castrated ram)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈskɔp/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Skop is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 17K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 24K
- SKSlovakia1 in 35K
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 Skop itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
1,566 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Скоп in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus and Škop in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia.
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)second-person singular imperative of skopat
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Skop is read
(measured from records)Skop is one spelling over 5 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.
- English58%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Skop in English.
- Polish12%
wether (castrated ram)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Czech11%
second-person singular imperative of skopat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Ukrainian8.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Skop in Ukrainian.
- German5.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Skop in German.
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 the surname Skop is found
(measured from records)Skop 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 1,566 | 1 in 24K | 786 | Skop | 53 |
| CZ Czechia | 615 | 1 in 17K | 615 | Škop | 34 |
| US United States | 398 | 1 in 836K | 416 | Skop | 31 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Скоп | 16 |
| RU Russia | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 680K | — | Скоп | 82 |
| SK Slovakia | 156 | 1 in 35K | 156 | Škop | 7 |
| BY Belarus | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 201K | — | Скоп | 8 |
1,566 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)Skop 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 Russian, "scoop."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Maltese, aim, end, goal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, humour, jest
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, to kick
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)- Yury Skopb. 1936LVRussian writer (1936–2020)
- Tetyana Duman-Skopb. 1981UAUkrainian artist, art historian and activist
- Emily SkopUSgeographer
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Skop come from?
- second-person singular imperative of skopat Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Skop?
- It depends on the language: in Polish /ˈskɔp/ (Wiktionary); in Ukrainian /skɔp/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Skop mean?
- In Polish, wether (castrated ram)
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Skop?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Skop, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled skop. After it come Czechia, United States, Ukraine and Russia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Skop most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Skop is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Skop?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,566 people named Skop in 2026, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Skop?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/skopThe 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, “Skop”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.