# Skeen (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/skeen/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 5,338 |
| US rank (2010) | 6,378 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 57,839 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.0% (5,182 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From the Scottish Gaelic surname, from sceathan (“thorn bush”), from Proto-Celtic *skʷiyats (“hawthorn”), from Proto-Indo-European *skw-iy-h₂e-ts, from *skwey-.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Skeen in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 88% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 6.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.0% |
| Two or more races | 2.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Skeen in the United States.

## People named Skeen

- Jamie Skeen, American basketball player (born 1988)
- Joe Skeen, 1927-2003 American politician; namesake of a university library, a wildlife refuge visitor

## Similar surnames

Sweeny, Sheen, Skehan, Sween, Sweeney, Snow, Sheehan, Swain, Sun, Swan, Shin, Shen.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.