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    The surname Skewes

    A Cornish place surname, carried by 353 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S200

    Skewes: #57,639 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Skewes #57,639, 353 people Skewes: #57,639 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Skewes #57,639, 353 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Skewes is more common than 64.5% of them.

    Origin

    Cornish origin

    Habitational surname from a minor place in Cornwall, from Cornish skaw (“elder bush”).

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

    One of 18 Cornish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 353 people named Skewes in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 874,633 Americans. That is down 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 360.

    #57,639
    rank among US surnames
    353
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1.9%
    change since 2000 (was #53,782)

    Who is named Skewes

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

    94% of people named Skewes identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Multiracial 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

    • Skuse

    Surnames that sound like Skewes

    Skewes has the Soundex code S200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S200.

    Other Cornish surnames

    All 18 Cornish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Skewes come from?
    Habitational surname from a minor place in Cornwall, from Cornish skaw (“elder bush”).
    How common is the surname Skewes?
    353 people in the United States had the surname Skewes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 874,633 Americans. It ranked 57,639th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Skewes?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Skewes identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Skewes?
    Skewes is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Skewes getting more or less common?
    Less common. 360 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 353 in 2010, down 1.9%.
    What are other spellings of Skewes?
    Skuse.