# Skok (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/skok/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Slovene.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Slovene |
| Type | nickname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 600 |
| US rank (2010) | 37,180 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 514,576 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.7% (573 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Serbo-Croatian and Slovene surname, nickname for a Turkish refugee, from uskočiti (“to flee”) (compare Czech utéct). Also a nickname from the verb skok (“to jump”). This is also sometimes found as a Polish surname from the same verb skok. * As a Jewish (Lithuania and Latvia) surname, from Skoki, the Polish and Russian name for Skakai, a small town in Kriukai in Lithuania.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Skok in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 96% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.0% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |

## Similar surnames

Skoog, Sok, Sako, Sosa, Souza, Skaggs, Shook, Sousa, Suggs, Sisk, Sage, Sisco.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.