Skok

Skok (Cyrillic: Скок) is a Slovenian, Croatian, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian surname.

It is derived from the Slavic word ' for "leap, jump", or more precisely the Slovene word ' for "to jump, to leap". The surname Skok has its highest density in Slovenia, where it was used in the 15th and 16th century as a nickname for Christian refugees from the Turks, who had fled the territories conquered by the Ottoman Empire to the southeast.

Notable people with the name

• Craig Skok (born 1947), American baseball player
• Heidi Skok, American operatic soprano
• Jane Skok, South African-American professor
• Janez Skok (born 1963), Slovenian slalom canoeist
• (1931–2017), Croatian literary historian
• Margaret Skok, Canadian diplomat
• Matevž Skok (born 1986), Slovenian handball player
• Petar Skok (1881–1956), Croatian linguist
• Viacheslav Skok (born 1946), Russian water polo player

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