as a Last Name
- 29,102
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Sykes
Meaning & Origins
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.
| 1,215th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 29,102
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Sykes per capita
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