Meaning & origin
What it means
Scales goes back to Old Norse skáli, meaning “shed, hut.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Scales’s family of names
In English usage, Scales as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with SCHOLES.
The ring: across languages.
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Similar names
If you love Scales, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Scarff
“cormorant”
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Skanke
“leg, shank”
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Scargill
“diving duck”
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Raffles
“fox” · “hole”
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Scaife
“awry, difficult”
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Skaife
“awry, difficult”
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Scule
Scule is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Old English.
>99% boys
Skíði
“skier”
>99% boys