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, 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.Hanna Shcherba, (born 1982), Belarusian-French swimmer
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Lev Shcherba
Lev Vladimirovich Shcherba (commonly Scherba) (; ; – December 26, 1944) was a Russian and Soviet linguist and lexicographer specializing in phonetics and phonology.
Early life and education
Born in Igumen (Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire,In ...
(1880–1944), Belarusian-Russian linguist
* Mariya Shcherba (born 1985), Belarusian swimmer
* Uladzimir Shcherba (born 1986), Belarusian footballer
Ščerba, Ščerbová
* Denisa Ščerbová (born 1986), Czech athlete
* (1917–2000), Czechoslovak pilot in World War II
* Matěj Ščerba (born 1998), Czech pole vaulter