Skeet
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Skeet is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. In English, recorded as A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Skeet is read(measured from records)
Skeet is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English83%
A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish5.6%
skeet (style of shooting)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Skeet is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In gv, A creeping, sneaking fellow.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, SKEET s. n. (Sport) Probă de talere1. [Pr.: schit].
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Harry May Skeetb. 1857New Zealand surveyor (1857-1943)
- H. E. Skeetb. 1900GBbadminton player
- Trevor Skeetb. 1918NZBritish politician (1918–2004)
- Muriel Skeetb. 1926GBBritish nurse, lecturer and WHO official
- Rachel Skeetb. 1955GBBritish painter (born 1955)
- Brian Skeetb. 1965GBEnglish director, writer, producer, and cinematographer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.1K | #6,095 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 435 | #51,662 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 409 | #48,469 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 379 | #54,418 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6 | #96,373 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 3 | #622 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #181 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Skeet mean, and where does it come from?
- A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Skeet have the most bearers?
- Skeet is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Skeet?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/skeetThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Skeet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.