The skipton Surname
skipton Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from Skipton or Skipton-on-Swale in
North Yorkshire. Both places are named with Old English scip
‘sheep’ (with later change of ‘s’ to ‘sk’ under Scandinavian
influence) + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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