# Skeffington

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #87,834

## Definitions
1. A village and civil parish of Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK739025).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

## Etymology
From the Old English personal name *Sċeaft, a byname from sċeaft (“shaft”), + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/skeffington