as a Last Name
- 50,898
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Skinner
Meaning & Origins
English: occupational name for someone who stripped the hide from animals, to be used in the production of fur garments or to be tanned for leather, from an agent derivative of Middle English skin ‘hide’, ‘pelt’ (Old Norse skinn).
| 548th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 50,898
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Idaho
- has the most people named Skinner per capita
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