The Sike Name: Records, Origin and Blazon

Search old registers for Sike and you will soon meet Sykes too.

Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Dweller by a small stream”. Before spelling was fixed, Sykes was also written Sike. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. The same family of names includes Sikes.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Sykes and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

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