Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from places in Leicestershire and Cambridgeshire so called. The former, Sibetesdone in Domesday Book, is named with the Old English personal name Sigebed + dūn ‘hill’; the latter (Sibestune in Domesday Book) is named with the Old English personal name Sibbi or Sibba + tūn ‘settlement’.
- English : patronymic from the personal name Sib(be), which is a short form either of the female name Sibilla (see Sibley) or of the Middle English male name Sybald (see Sibbald).