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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from the medieval personal name Sica, a short form of any of various Germanic compound personal names formed with sigi ‘victory’ as the first element.
  • Greek (Sykas) : occupational name for a grower or seller of figs, from Greek siko ‘fig’ (classical Greek sykon) + the occupational suffix -as.

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