Family name origins & meanings
- English : from a Middle English personal name, Seric, which represents a coalescence of two Old English personal names, Sǣrīc (composed of sǣ ‘sea’ + rīc ‘power’) and Sigerīc (composed sige ‘victory’ + rīc ‘power’). This would normally have given modern English Serrich, but the form has been altered under the influence of Old French surreis ‘southerner’ (see 2 below).
- English : regional name for someone who had migrated from the South, from Old French surreis ‘southerner’.
- English : habitational name from a place in the parish of Morebath, Devon, so named from Old English sūð ‘south’ + hrycg ‘ridge’.