Skip to main content

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of several places so called (in Lancashire, Derbyshire, and West Yorkshire), which are named from Old English scyttel(s) ‘bar’, ‘bolt’ + worð ‘enclosure’. Reaney and Wilson give also Shuttlewood in Bolsover, Derbyshire, as a source of the surname.

Join the Family

Your partner in parenting from baby name inspiration to college planning.

Subscribe