Scales (surname)

The surname Scales has more than one possible origin.

In some cases, the surname may originate from a name for someone who lived near huts or sheds. In such cases, the surname is derived from the Middle English scale, schole, scole, meaning "(temporary) hut, shed, shieling" (from Old Scandinavian skáli).[1] The surname may also originate from a specific place name of the same meaning, such as Scole (Norfolk),[2] or from various other places called Scales or Scholes, mainly in northern England.[3] The surname first arrived in Ireland, in Limerick, in the fourteenth century from England.[4] The surname can be rendered in Irish as de Scéalas.[5]

In other cases, the surname Scales originates from a place name in France. In such cases, it is derived from Écalles-Alix in Seine-Maritime,[6] or from Escalles in Pas-de-Calais.[7]

People with the surname

Citations
  1. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016) p. 2347; Reaney; Wilson (1995) p. 394; Hanks; Hodges (1991) p. 477.
  2. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016) p. 2347; Reaney; Wilson (1995) p. 394.
  3. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016) p. 2347; Reaney; Wilson (1995) p. 394; Hanks; Hodges (1991) p. 477.
  4. de Bhulbh (1997) p. 344.
  5. Woulfe (1967) p. 277.
  6. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016) p. 2347.
  7. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016) p. 2347; Reaney; Wilson (1995) p. 394.
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References
  • de Bhulbh, S (1997). Sloinnte na h-Éireann: Irish Surnames. Limerick: Comhar-Chumann Íde Naofa Teo. ISBN 0-9530560-0-7. OL 316008M.
  • Hanks, P; Coates, R; McClure, P, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. 4. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-879884-2.
  • Hanks, P; Hodges, F (1991) [1988]. A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-10-211502-8. OL 2044914M.
  • Reaney, PH (1995). Wilson, RM (ed.). A Dictionary of English Surnames (3rd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-8631464.
  • Woulfe, P (1967) [1923]. Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company.
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