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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern English : habitational name from a place in Ayrshire, probably so named from Old English scylf ‘shelf’, ‘ledge’ + dūn ‘hill’, with a later change of ‘s’ to ‘sk’ under Scandinavian influence.

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