Skok
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English
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.
Proper noun
Skok (plural Skoks)
- A surname from Slovene.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Skok is the 37180th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 600 individuals. Skok is most common among White (95.67%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Skok”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.