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: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɔ̀k/

Proper noun

Skòk m

1. a surname

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	Skok
gen. sing.	Skoka
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Skok	Skoka	Skoki
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Skoka	Skokov	Skokov
dative (dajȃlnik)	Skoku	Skokoma	Skokom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Skoka	Skoka	Skoke
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Skoku	Skokih	Skokih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Skokom	Skokoma	Skoki

Further reading

• “Skok”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025