Shcherba, Ščerba, Scherbo, or Szczerba is a Slavic-language surname. It has the same form for both genders in most languages, except Czech and Slovak. The word means "gap", "dent", or "nick" in some languages such as Polish. In Ukraine, it is also a term for certain kinds of soup.
ЩЕРБА
in: Словник української мови. Академічний тлумачний словник (1970—1980) (Ukrainian Etymological Dictionary) Related surnames include Shcherbak Shcherbak (Georgian: შჩერბაკ, Russian: Шчербак) is a Ukrainian-language surname. Shcherba (Щерба) is a Ukrainian term for certain kinds of soup and is related to the Persian word "shorba" with the same meaning.
The name ...
, Shcherbakov, and Shcherban Shcherban (Cyrillic: Щерба́нь, Щерба́н) is a surname. In 2017, in Ukraine there were about 2,000 persons recorded with the surname variant Щерба́н and about 10,000 with variant Щерба́нь.Denisa Ščerbová Denisa is a feminine given name, equivalent to English ''Denise'', used in various European languages, particularly in Albanian, Croatian, Czech, Romanian, Slovak and Slovenian. Notable people with the name include:
* Denisa Chládková
*Denisa Ded ...
(born 1986), Czech athlete
* Vitaly Scherbo
Vitaly Venediktovich Scherbo (or Shcherbo; russian: Виталий Венедиктович Щербо, or Shcherba; be, Віталь Венядзіктавіч Шчэрба, ''Vital' Venjadziktavich Shcherba'', born 13 January 1972) is a Bel ...
(born 1972), Belarusian gymnast
* Hanna Shcherba, (born 1982), Belarusian-French swimmer
* Lev Shcherba Lev Shcherba (commonly Scherba) (Russian: Лев Влади́мирович Ще́рба, Belarusian: Леў Уладзіміравіч Шчэрба) ( – December 26, 1944) was a Russian Empire and Soviet linguist and lexicographer specializing i ...
(1880–1944), Belarusian-Russian linguist
* Mariya Shcherba (born 1985), Belarusian swimmer
* Uladzimir Shcherba (born 1986), Belarusian footballer
* Andrew Szczerba (born 1988), American football tight end
* Kazimierz Szczerba
Kazimierz Wiesław Szczerba (born 4 March 1954 in Ciężkowice) is a Polish former amateur boxer who won a Light Welterweight Bronze medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics and a Welterweight Bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
In 1976, ...
(born 1954), Polish amateur boxer
* Michał Szczerba (born 1977) Polish politician
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Belarusian-language surnames
Ukrainian-language surnames