Skúlason is a
surname
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...
of
Icelandic origin, meaning ''son of Skúli''.
In
Icelandic name
Icelandic names are names used by people from Iceland. Icelandic surnames are different from most other naming systems in the modern Western world in that they are patronymic or occasionally matronymic: they indicate the father (or mother) o ...
s, the name is not strictly a surname, but is a
patronymic
A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. It is the male equivalent of a matronymic.
Patronymics are used, b ...
. The name may refer to:
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Ari Freyr Skúlason (born 1987), Icelandic professional football player
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Einarr Skúlason (
fl.
''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...
12th century), Icelandic priest and skald
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Ólafur Ingi Skúlason (born 1983), Icelandic professional football player
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Páll Skúlason
Páll Skúlason (4 June 1945 – 22 April 2015) was a professor of philosophy and former Rector of the University of Iceland.
Born and raised in Akureyri, in northern Iceland, Páll Skúlason graduated from highschool in 1965. He studied phil ...
(born 1945), Icelandic professor of philosophy; rector of the University of Iceland
References
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Icelandic-language masculine surnames