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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Skipton or Skipton-on-Swale in North Yorkshire. Both places are named with Old English scīp ‘sheep’ (with later change of ‘s’ to ‘sk’ under Scandinavian influence) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

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