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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Slovak : nickname for someone who tended to dash about, or an occupational name for an acrobat, from a derivative of skok ‘spring’, ‘bound’, ‘leap’, or of skoczyć ‘to jump or spring’.

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