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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly Lancashire) : from Middle English sede ‘seed’; a metonymic occupational name for a gardener or husbandman, or a nickname for a small person.
  • English (chiefly Lancashire) : from a late Old English personal name, Sida, a post-Conquest short form of compound names formed with sidu ‘custom’, ‘manner’; ‘morality’, ‘purity’ as the first element.

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