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    The surname Skok

    A Slovene nickname surname, carried by 600 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S200

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Skok is more common than 77.1% of them.

    Origin

    Slovene origin

    * 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.

    Skok is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 600 people named Skok in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 514,576 Americans. That is up 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 573.

    #37,180
    rank among US surnames
    600
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.7%
    change since 2000 (was #36,761)

    Who is named Skok

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    96% of people named Skok identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Skok

    Skok has the Soundex code S200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S200.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Skok come from?
    * 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…
    How common is the surname Skok?
    600 people in the United States had the surname Skok in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 514,576 Americans. It ranked 37,180th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Skok?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Skok identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Skok?
    Skok is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Skok getting more or less common?
    More common. 573 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 600 in 2010, up 4.7%.