Skinner

Skinner is the 637th most common surname in the United States, shared by 51,876 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,762.

By the numbers

People: 51,876
Rank: 637th
How common: 1 in 5,762
Per 100,000: 17.4

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

The family surname is occupational in origin, meaning "one who prepares skins". Before becoming used as a surname the word skinner was commonly used to identify someone who treated animal skins.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Skinner described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 76.6%
Black, not Hispanic 14.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Skinner

B.F. Skinner (1904–1990)American behaviorist
Quentin Skinner (born 1940)British historian
Dennis Skinner (born 1932)British politician
Catherine Skinner (born 1990)Australian sport shooter
Jeff Skinner (born 1992)Canadian ice hockey player
Callum Skinner (born 1992)Scottish track cyclist
Claire Skinner (born 1965)British film, radio, stage, and television actress
MyKayla Skinner (born 1996)American artistic gymnast

People named Skinner with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Skinner

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.