Skorek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 2. nickname from Pol
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/skɔrɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Skorek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 18K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 342K
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
2,094 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)2. nickname from Pol. skory eager. 3. offensive nickname meaning ‘Earwig’. Cogn. (of 3): Czech: Skvor. Skorokhodov
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Skorek 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 | 2,094 | 1 in 18K | 1.1K | Skorek | 61 |
| BR Brazil | 243 | 1 in 871K | 243 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 8.3M | listed | Skorek | 25 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | 9 | Skorek | 22 |
| NO Norway | 16 | 1 in 342K | 16 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Skorek | 6 |
| DK Denmark | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
2,094 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Skorek 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 Polish, name from Pol. skory eager. 3. offensive nickname meaning ‘Earwig’.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Polish, earwig (any insect of the order Dermaptera)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Russian, "quick."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)- Edward Skorekb. 1943PLPolish former volleyball player
- Adam Skorekb. 1956PLCanadian University Professor and Polish Engineer
- Magdalena Skorekb. 1984PLPolish basketball player (born 1984)
- Andrzej SkorekPLPolish otolaryngologist
- Artur SkorekPLPolish political scientist
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.1K | #2,798 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 997 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 997 | #3,048 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 243 | #31,348 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 16 | #47,053 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 9 | #154,387 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #52,953 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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)
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
- Where does the name Skorek come from?
- 2. nickname from Pol. skory eager. 3. offensive nickname meaning ‘Earwig’. Cogn. (of 3): Czech: Skvor. Skorokhodov Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Skorek?
- A machine transcription gives /skɔrɛk/ (IPA) for Polish.
- What does the name Skorek mean?
- Recorded meaning: 2. nickname from Pol.
- In which country does Skorek have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Skorek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled skorek.
- Where is Skorek most common?
- Skorek is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 18 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Skorek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,094 people named Skorek in 2026, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/skorekThe 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, “Skorek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.