Skov
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forest
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɡ̊ɒwˀ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Skov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 729(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 37K
- SESweden1 in 124K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 729 (inferred from the name graph)
8,050 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
forest
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Skov 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | 8,050 | 1 in 729 | 8.1K | — | — |
| US United States | 526 | 1 in 632K | 526 | Skov | 10 |
| NO Norway | 148 | 1 in 37K | 148 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 82 | 1 in 124K | 82 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 8 | 1 in 4.8M | 8 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 2 | 1 in 2.5M | 2 | — | — |
8,050 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Skov 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 German, Danish 'forest, wood'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Swedish, relapse, flare-up
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, past of skava
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)
- Ingeborg Skovb. 1893DKDanish actress
- Jørgen Skovb. 1925DKDanish cinematographer
- Glen Skovb. 1931CACanadian ice hockey player
- Søren Skovb. 1954DKDanish footballer (1954–2022)
- Kira Skovb. 1976DKDanish singer
- Christoffer Boserup Skovb. 1976Danish philosopher
- Signe Skovb. 1977Danish actress
- Rikke Skovb. 1980DKDanish handball player
- Shayne Skovb. 1990USAmerican football player
- Robert Skovb. 1996ESDanish 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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8.1K | #52 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 526 | #41,359 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 519 | #44,544 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 476 | #42,830 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 148 | #10,576 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 82 | #8,396 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #157,053 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2 | #14,049 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Skov mean, and where does it come from?
- forest Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Skov?
- A machine transcription gives /sɡ̊ɒwˀ/ (IPA) for Danish.
- In which country does Skov have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 8.1 thousand people named Skov, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Skov most common?
- Skov is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 729 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Skov?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 8,050 people named Skov, about 1 in 729 residents.
What do you want to know about Skov?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/skovThe 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, “Skov”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.