The sykes Surname
sykes Name Meaning and History
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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