The surname Skipwith
An English place surname, carried by 561 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S130
Origin
English origin
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”).
Skipwith 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 561 people named Skipwith in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 550,349 Americans. That is up 7.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 521.
Who is named Skipwith
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
77% of people named Skipwith identified as Black (not Hispanic), 18% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Black (not Hispanic) 77%
- White (not Hispanic) 18%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 1.6%
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Skipwith come from?
- 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”).
- How common is the surname Skipwith?
- 561 people in the United States had the surname Skipwith in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 550,349 Americans. It ranked 39,212th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Skipwith?
- In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Skipwith identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 18% as white (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Skipwith?
- Skipwith is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Skipwith getting more or less common?
- More common. 521 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 561 in 2010, up 7.7%.