Skok

See also: skok and skók

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)

1. A surname from Slovene.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Skok is the 37180^th 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 City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.