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    The surname Skeffington

    An English place surname, carried by 407 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex S152

    Skeffington: #51,176 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Skeffington #51,176, 407 people Skeffington: #51,176 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Skeffington #51,176, 407 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Skeffington is more common than 68.5% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From the Old English personal name *Sċeaft, a byname from sċeaft (“shaft”), + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

    Skeffington is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 407 people named Skeffington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 758,589 Americans. That is up 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 393.

    #51,176
    rank among US surnames
    407
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.6%
    change since 2000 (was #50,055)

    Who is named Skeffington

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    96% of people named Skeffington identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as two or more races and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Skeavington

    Skeffington has the Soundex code S152, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S152.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Skeffington come from?
    From the Old English personal name *Sċeaft, a byname from sċeaft (“shaft”), + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
    How common is the surname Skeffington?
    407 people in the United States had the surname Skeffington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 758,589 Americans. It ranked 51,176th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Skeffington?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Skeffington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Skeffington?
    Skeffington is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Skeffington getting more or less common?
    More common. 393 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 407 in 2010, up 3.6%.
    What are other spellings of Skeffington?
    Skeavington.