Derived from the ancient words "sceathin" meaning a bush or clump of trees, or "sceach", a briar, it can be either Scottish or Irish. If Scottish it can be locational from the barony of Skene in the county of Aberdeenshire, and the earliest recordings are to be found from this region.
Definition of skete. : a settlement of Eastern Orthodox monks inhabiting a group of small cottages around a church and dependent upon a parent monastery.
Last name: Skates. SDB Popularity ranking: 13153. This unusual name is one of the patronymic forms of the Northern English surname "Skeat", which is of Norse origin, dating from the Scandinavian settlement of northern and western areas of England before the 10th Century.
Shadow(Greek word 'skia'). In Greek, skia-,scia- or skio-, is used as a prefix meaning 'pertaining to shade or darkness'.
Skíðblaðnir (Old Norse 'assembled from thin pieces of wood'), sometimes anglicized as Skidbladnir or Skithblathnir, is the best of ships in Norse mythology.
The meaning of the name Skip is Skipper, Sea Captain. The origin of the name Skip is American. This is the culture in which the name originated, or in the case of a word, the language. Shortened version of the nickname Skipper.
This interesting surname with variant spellings Skip, Skep, Skypp(e) etc., has two possible origins. Firstly, it may have originated as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of baskets from the Medieval English "skipp(e)", itself coming from the old Norse "skeppa" meaning "basket".
The different meanings of the name Skipper are: American meaning: Captain. English meaning: Shipmaster. Dutch meaning: A ship's captain.
Skipper Name Meaning. occupational name for the master of a ship, Middle English skipper (from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch schipper).
Skipton Name Meaning. English: habitational name from Skipton or Skipton-on-Swale in North Yorkshire.
