# Skipwith (surname)

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

A habitational surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 561 |
| US rank (2010) | 39,212 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 550,349 people |
| Change since 2000 | +7.7% (521 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Recorded as Schipwic in the Domesday Book, from Old English sċēap (“sheep”) + wīc (“outlying settlement”). The last element was later changed under the influence of Old Norse viðr (“tree; forest, wood”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Skipwith 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) | 18% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 77% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Two or more races | 1.6% |

## Similar surnames

Swift, Speed, Spaeth, Spade, Swoboda, Spada, Sepeda, Spady, Speth, Sabado, Spath, Shibata.

## 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.