Skok (Cyrillic: Скок) is a Slovenian, Croatian, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian surname derived from the Slavic word skok for "leap, jump" or more precisely the Slovene word skočiti for "to jump, to leap" that has its highest density in Slovenia, where it was used in the 15th and 16th century as a nickname for a Christian refugee from the Turks who had fled the territories conquered by the Ottoman Empire to the southeast.
Notable people with the name ''Skok'' include: * Craig Skok (born 1947), American former baseball player * Janez Skok (born 1963), Slovenian slalom canoeist * Joža Skok (1931–2017), Croatian literary historian * Matevž Skok (born 1986), Slovenian handball player *

Petar Skok Petar Skok (; 1 March 1881 – 3 February 1956) was a Croatian linguist and onomastics expert. History Skok was born to a Croatian family in the village of Jurkovo Selo, Žumberak. From 1892 to 1900 he attended the Higher Real Gymnasium in Rako ...

(1881–1956), Croatian linguist * Viacheslav Skok (born 1946), Russian water polo player

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