Skelton Surname

15,539th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 35,872 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Tonga

Skelton Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Skelton,' a village near Ripon, Yorkshire Skeleton is not a happy corruption, but it is imitative, like a hundred other corrupted spellings; compare Deadman, Physick. (a) 'of Skelton,' a parish in Cumberland.

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Skelton Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States20,3521:17,8092,256
England8,2291:6,771980
Australia1,8011:14,9892,129
Canada1,4271:25,8203,469
New Zealand9901:4,574722
Scotland5781:9,2631,317
Northern Ireland4651:3,968789
Ireland4051:11,6271,452
South Africa3711:146,03216,656
Samoa2031:955301
Wales1861:16,6371,803
Tonga1751:613165
Thailand1181:598,630101,799
France611:1,088,897118,069
Dominican Republic541:193,2027,170
Germany491:1,642,96996,430
British Virgin Islands421:752126
Brazil331:6,487,101155,169
United States Virgin Islands321:3,449570
Belgium301:383,22141,070
Singapore301:183,5907,666
Spain271:1,731,55749,506
Jamaica231:124,7804,616
Saint Kitts and Nevis161:3,450449
Switzerland151:547,52838,365
Philippines151:6,749,215188,373
American Samoa141:3,983910
Norway141:367,30634,015
Sweden111:895,16066,831
Netherlands101:1,688,71881,846
Isle of Man71:12,2602,387
Japan61:21,307,38248,838
Hong Kong51:1,467,0975,611
Denmark51:1,128,94352,970
South Korea41:12,810,0642,073
Sri Lanka41:5,202,14012,146
Saudi Arabia41:7,713,95437,548
Italy41:15,289,172132,955
Botswana41:546,73222,624
United Arab Emirates31:3,054,09190,853
Panama31:1,304,08613,647
Jersey31:33,0674,675
Slovakia31:1,778,817104,392
India31:255,688,4611,306,352
China21:683,660,78330,601
Vietnam21:46,323,0275,235
Afghanistan21:16,076,59243,178
Russia21:72,061,528727,117
Poland21:19,004,374199,659
Papua New Guinea21:4,076,858165,791
Pakistan21:89,321,942157,560
Nigeria21:88,571,379625,098
Kenya21:23,089,95083,168
Madagascar11:23,649,8379,420
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
Bermuda11:65,2793,010
DR Congo11:73,879,570260,543
Guernsey11:64,4392,137
Ivory Coast11:23,071,23276,679
Cayman Islands11:63,8932,384
Jordan11:8,842,43726,010
Zimbabwe11:15,438,240133,260
Zambia11:15,849,92253,989
Chile11:17,616,47493,597
Luxembourg11:580,54215,155
Argentina11:42,743,414282,706
Moldova11:3,561,36878,271
Namibia11:2,409,40119,676
Cuba11:11,522,71617,380
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403
Cyprus11:884,87613,055
Fiji11:894,3914,568
Saint Lucia11:178,7813,800
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland3511:12,6211,703
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England4,1531:5,869892
Scotland1681:22,2812,124
Wales191:82,5483,796
Jersey161:3,243531
Guernsey21:16,3281,834
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States2,7371:18,3482,319

Skelton (47) may also be a first name.

Skelton Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Skelton,' a village near Ripon, Yorkshire Skeleton is not a happy corruption, but it is imitative, like a hundred other corrupted spellings; compare Deadman, Physick. (a) 'of Skelton,' a parish in Cumberland.

Willelmus de Skelton, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

Thomas de Skelton, 1379: ibid.

1617. John Skelton, Cumberland: Register of the University of Oxford.

1632-3. John Skelton and Prudence Summers: Marriage Lic. (Faculty Office).

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

(English) belonging to Skelton—a Northern (guttural) form of Shelton, q.v.

Two of the Yorks places were Scheltun and Scheltone in Domesday-Book.

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

(English) One who came from Skelton (the hill, or bank, manor), the name of parishes in Yorkshire and Cumberland.

Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

Parishes and places in cos. Cumberland, Yorkshire, &c. The Skeltons of the former county date back to temp. Edw. H. Hutchinson's Cumberland.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

(Saxon.) Local. The hill of separation or boundary.

An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names (1857) by William Arthur

A location name in Cumberland, Yorkshire.

British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning (1903) by Henry Barber

Skelton is an old Lincoln name, and still occurs there: the mayor of the city in 1697 and the sheriffs of 1417 and 1691 bore this name (St.). One of the first ministers of Salem, Massachusetts, was Samuel Skelton, a nonconforming minister of Lincolnshire, who went to America in 1629 (T.). There are Yorkshire parishes and townships thus called.

Homes of Family Names in Great Britain (1890) by Henry Brougham Guppy

Skelton Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Skelton Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Skelton (Russian: Скелтон) is more commonly found in The United States than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Skelton.

How Common Is The Last Name Skelton? popularity and diffusion

The surname Skelton is the 15,539th most frequent last name internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 203,154 people. The last name Skelton occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 60 percent of Skelton reside; 59 percent reside in North America and 59 percent reside in Anglo-North America. Skelton is also the 1,467,136th most widespread first name throughout the world, borne by 47 people.

This last name is most widely held in The United States, where it is carried by 20,352 people, or 1 in 17,809. In The United States Skelton is primarily found in: Texas, where 10 percent are found, California, where 8 percent are found and Tennessee, where 6 percent are found. Aside from The United States this surname occurs in 72 countries. It is also common in England, where 23 percent are found and Australia, where 5 percent are found.

Skelton Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Skelton has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Skelton surname grew 744 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it grew 198 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it grew 344 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Ireland it grew 115 percent between 1901 and 2014 and in Wales it grew 979 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Skelton Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the Skelton last name is primarily Catholic (54%) in Ireland.

In The United States those holding the Skelton surname are 20.14% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 66.91% being registered to vote for the political party.

The amount Skelton earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 2.22% more than the national average, earning 353,780 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 56.13% more than the national average, earning R 371,016 per year; in United States they earn 2.13% less than the national average, earning $42,232 USD per year and in Canada they earn 3.9% more than the national average, earning $51,623 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Sckelton931/
Skeelton931/
Skellton931/
Skeltond931/
Skilton863,602/
Skeltan864/
Skeltom861/
Skleton861/
Skillton802/
Shckleton751/
Skiltom710/
Sqltanova501/

Skelton Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Skelton in the Russian language
Скелтонskelton-

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Skelton Reference & Research

Shelton DNA Website - A web page dedicated to the genetic research of those who bear the surname and its variants.

Shelton FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.

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