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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Skóra) and Jewish (from Poland) : metonymic occupational name for a leather worker or tanner, from skóra ‘leather’.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Skora, from Old Norse skor ‘ledge’, ‘cleft in a mountain’.

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