From Latin Sidonia, feminine of Sidonius, in origin an ethnic name meaning ‘man from Sidon’ (the city in Phoenicia). This came to be associated with the Greek word sindon ‘winding sheet’. Two saints called Sidonius are venerated in the Catholic Church: Sidonius Apollinaris, a 4th-century bishop of Clermont, and a 7th-century Irish monk who was the first abbot of the monastery of Saint-Saëns (which is named with a much altered form of his name).
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- people in the U.S have this name
- 3
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Virginia
- has the most people named Sidony per capita
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- marked the height of its popularity
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