Shackleton

English

Etymology

Habitational surname from a place in West Yorkshire, from an unattested Old English word *sċacol (“tongue of land”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Shackleton (countable and uncountable, plural Shackletons)

1. A surname from Old English.
2. A ghost town in Chattooga County, Georgia, United States.
3. Ernest Shackleton, British Antarctic explorer.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Shackleton is the 25295^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 979 individuals. Shackleton is most common among White (89.68%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Shackleton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• chalkstone, shecklaton