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    The surname Skillings

    A surname, carried by 1,084 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S452

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Skillings is more common than 85.5% of them.

    Origin

    An English surname that originated in Norfolk, of unknown derivation.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,084 people named Skillings in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 284,821 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,051.

    #23,457
    rank among US surnames
    1,084
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.1%
    change since 2000 (was #22,783)

    Who is named Skillings

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

    89% of people named Skillings identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.3%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Skillings

    Skillings has the Soundex code S452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S452.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Skillings?
    1,084 people in the United States had the surname Skillings in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 284,821 Americans. It ranked 23,457th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Skillings?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Skillings identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Skillings getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,051 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,084 in 2010, up 3.1%.