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silk Name Meaning and History

  1. English: metonymic occupational name for a silk merchant, from Middle English selk(e), silk(e) ‘silk’.
  2. English: from a medieval personal name, a back-formation from Silkin (see Sill).
  3. Irish (Galway): Anglicized form (part translation) of Gaelic Ó Síoda (see Sheedy).
  4. Americanized form (translation) of German and Jewish Seide or Seid.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of silk Families in the US in 1920
Number of silk families
 48-94
 17-47
 1-16
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