Škof families are Croats and they are mostly from Zlatar. According to some sources they are from Slovenia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zlatar and Zagreb. In Gornja Batina in Zlatar every fourth inhabitant had the family name Škof.
Prevalence
About 260 people with faimily name Škof live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 230 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Zagreb (80), Gornja Batina (45), Zlatar (15), Velika Gorica (15), and in Turkovcina in Sveti Ivan Zelina area (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.