# Skeat

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**Skeat** or **Skeats** is a common English family name. The names Skeat, Skeats, Skeates, Skett, Skitt and Skates are derived from the forename Scet or Schett, which is mentioned in Domesday Book.[1]

## History

*Skeat* was originally a given name derived from the Old Norse *skjótr*, meaning "swift" or "fleet". Ricardus filius (son of) Schet 1166 is mentioned in the [Pipe Rolls](/source/Pipe_rolls) of [Henry II](/source/Henry_II_of_England) in [Norfolk](/source/Norfolk). It is mentioned as a surname in the 1201 Pipe Rolls in [Shropshire](/source/Shropshire) and in the 1275 [Hundred Rolls](/source/Hundred_Rolls) in Norfolk again. Robert Skeet is mentioned in the [Subsidy Rolls](/source/Subsidy_roll) of [Suffolk](/source/Suffolk) for 1327.[2]

## People surnamed Skeat or Skeats

- Bob Skeat, bass guitarist in [Wishbone Ash](/source/Wishbone_Ash)
- [Ethel Skeat](/source/Ethel_Skeat) (1865–1939), English paleontologist
- [Ernest Willington Skeats](/source/Ernest_Willington_Skeats) (1875–1953), geologist
- [Francis Skeat](/source/Francis_Skeat) (1909–2000), English glass painter
- [Len Skeat](/source/Len_Skeat), jazz double-bassist
- [Theodore Cressy Skeat](/source/Theodore_Cressy_Skeat) (1907–2003), paleographer
- [Walter William Skeat](/source/Walter_William_Skeat) (1835–1912), philologist and etymologist
- [Walter William Skeat (anthropologist)](/source/Walter_William_Skeat_(anthropologist)) (1866–1953), anthropologist

## References

1. Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. & Thornton, David E. (eds.) (1997). [*Domesday Names: An Index of Latin Personal and Place Names in Domesday Book*](https://books.google.com/books?id=B-fseNYY86sC&pg=PA192). Woodbridge: Boydell Press. pp. 191–192. ISBN 9780851154299. Retrieved 2 October 2022.

1. Reaney, P. H. & Wilson, R. M. (1995). [*A Dictionary of English Surnames*](https://books.google.com/books?id=YOganQAACAAJ). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 412. ISBN 0198631464. Retrieved 2 October 2022.

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