Skočak families are Croats and they are mostly from Zlatar area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Zlatar area. In Globočec in Zlatar area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Skočak.
Prevalence
About 110 people with faimily name Skočak live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in four Croatian counties, four cities and 18 other places, mostly in Sesvete (20), Globocec in Zlatar area (20), Zagreb (15), Biskupec Zelinski (10), and in Moravce (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.