The story
Blend of Skyrme + fermion, after British physicist Tony Skyrme (1922–1987), who proposed the mathematical structure as a model of the nucleon in 1961.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
skyrmion
Today it means: Any of a particular class of topological soliton that can be used to model certain properties of a nucleon. Full definition →