Haskell Last Name Facts and Heraldry

Haskell is a German surname. Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “descendant of Ezekiel”.

Surname origin

It is a patronymic: it named a person after a father or forebear.

9,816 Americans were listed as Haskell in the 2010 census. That is enough to place it in the top 5,000 American surnames.

Haskell coat of arms

Sharing the Haskell name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families.

Want more than a summary? See the Haskell family name pack.