Shackleton

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English

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Etymology

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

Proper noun

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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

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

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