English: habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, near
Ripon, also known as Skelden. It is so called from the river name
Skell (Old Norse Skjallr ‘resounding’) + Old English
denu ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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