Scargill
English edit
Etymology edit
Recorded as Scracreghil in the Domesday Book, from Old Norse skraki (“diving duck”) + gil (“valley, ravine”).
Proper noun edit
Scargill (countable and uncountable, plural Scargills)
- A hamlet and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ050106).
- A habitational surname from Old Norse.
Statistics edit
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Scargill is the 7084th most common surname in England, belonging to 938 individuals.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Scargill”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.