Scargill

English

Etymology

Recorded as Scracreghil in the Domesday Book, from Old Norse skraki (“diving duck”) + gil (“valley, ravine”).

Proper noun

Scargill (countable and uncountable, plural Scargills)

1. A hamlet and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ050106).
2. A habitational surname from Old Norse.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Scargill is the 7084^th most common surname in England, belonging to 938 individuals.

Further reading

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