Sköld
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a shield (armor) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
/ɧœld/(recorded in a dictionary) Swedish · from Wiktionary
Sköld is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country: 5,478 people, counted by Skatteverket.
- SESweden1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 24K
- DKDenmark1 in 189K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
5,478 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Skold in US United States, GB United Kingdom, BJ Benin.
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.
How to pronounce Sköld
- Swedish:/ɧœld/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a shield (armor)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Sköld is found
(measured from records)Sköld 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #193 | 5,478 | 1 in 1.9K | 5.5K | Sköld | 59 |
| BJ Benin | #889 | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Skold | 3 |
| US United States | — | 283 | 1 in 1.2M | 283 | Skold | 133 |
| FI Finland | — | 235 | 1 in 24K | 235 | Sköld | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | 23 | Skold | 17 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Sköld | 6 |
| DK Denmark | — | 31 | 1 in 189K | 31 | — | 3 |
5,478 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Gunnar Sköldb. 1894SESwedish racing cyclist (1894–1971)
- Yngve Sköldb. 1899SESwedish composer (1899–1992)
- Tim Skoldb. 1966SESwedish musician
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sköld mean, and where does it come from?
- a shield (armor) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sköld?
- In Swedish /ɧœld/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sköld?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 5.5 thousand people named Sköld, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sköld. After it come Benin, United States, Finland and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Sköld most common?
- Sköld is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sköld?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 5,478 people named Sköld, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Sköld compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Sköld is the 193rd most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sköld?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sk%C3%B6ldThe 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, “Sköld” — ranked 174th in Sweden (Skatteverket). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.