Skidmore
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from an unidentified place, probably somewhere in the west or south-west; first attested Hugh de Scudimore 1167 P (He)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈskɪdmɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Skidmore is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 31K
- CACanada≈1 in 31K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 381 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈57,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Åland Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from an unidentified place, probably somewhere in the west or south-west; first attested Hugh de Scudimore 1167 P (He)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Skidmore counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Skidmore | 2 |
| US United States | 10,841 | 1 in 31K | 11K | Skidmore | 381 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 4.4K | Skidmore | 163 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Skidmore | 114 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Skidmore | 1 |
| AX Åland Islands | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Skidmore | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
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)
Skidmore is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, a different form of Scudamore.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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)
- Thomas Skidmoreb. 1790USAmerican reformer
- Estelle Skidmore Doremusb. 1830USAmerican philanthropist (1830–1905)
- Lucy Skidmore Scribnerb. 1853USfounder of Skidmore College (1853-1931)
- Louis Skidmoreb. 1897USAmerican architect
- Mark Skidmoreb. 1900USeconomist (Michigan State University)
- Alan Skidmoreb. 1942GBBritish saxophonist
- Kelly Skidmoreb. 1962USAmerican politician
- Chris Skidmoreb. 1981GBBritish politician and historian (born 1981)
- Cheyenne Skidmoreb. 1991USAmerican soccer player
- Gage Skidmoreb. 1993USAmerican photographer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,310 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #3,091 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 10K | #3,405 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 4.4K | #1,820 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Skidmore mean, and where does it come from?
- from an unidentified place, probably somewhere in the west or south-west; first attested Hugh de Scudimore 1167 P (He) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Skidmore?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈskɪdmɔɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Skidmore have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 57 thousand people named Skidmore in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled skidmore.
- How common is the name Skidmore?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,841 people named Skidmore in 2010, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/skidmoreThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Skidmore”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.