English: topographic name for someone who lived on a slope, from
Middle English side ‘slope’ (Old English side), or a
habitational name from Syde in Gloucestershire, named with this
word. This name is also established in Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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