Skou
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Skou is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 4.4K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 56K
- FIFinland1 in 159K
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
1,330 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Skou 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.
1,330 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)
Skou is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A Papuan language spoken in Indonesia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In stq, shoe
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)
- Johan Skoub. 1849NO26. august 1849 Håland (nå Sola), Rogaland 15. januar 1919 Stavanger, Rogaland
- Per Skoub. 1891NONorwegian footballer (1891-1962)
- Ulla Poulsen Skoub. 1905DKDanish actress (1905–2001)
- Erik Skoub. 1917DKDanish swimmer (1917-1984)
- Jens Christian Skoub. 1918DKDanish chemist (1918-2018)
- Kaare R. Skoub. 1947Danish journalist
- Peder Skoub. 1950Danish entomologist
- Søren Skoub. 1964DKDanish businessperson
- Sophia Skoub. 1975swimmer
- Morten Skoub. 1987Danish handball 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 1.3K | #302 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 98 | #15,540 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #31,050 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 11 | #36,663 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- In which country does Skou have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Skou, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Skou most common?
- Skou is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Skou?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 1,330 people named Skou, about 1 in 4.4 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Skou?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/skouThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Skou”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.