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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly Yorkshire) : topographic name for someone who lived by a stream in a marsh or in a hollow, from Middle English syke ‘marshy stream’, ‘damp gully’, or a habitational name from one of the places named with this word, in Lancashire and West Yorkshire.

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