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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern English : from the Middle English personal name Sybald, Old English Sigebeald, composed of the elements sige ‘victory’ + beald ‘bold’, ‘brave’, reinforced in the early Middle Ages by the Norman introduction of a Continental cognate.

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