Sikes, Sykes Surnames

Sikes
Northern English: variant spelling of Sykes.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

Sykes
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