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Van Slyke

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : topographic name from Middle Dutch slijcke ‘mire’, ‘marshy place’, or a habitational name for someone from a place named with this word, for example Slijkenburg near Berg op Zoom in Brabant or Slijkewijck in Gelderland.
  • Dutch : It could also be a diphthongized variant of Slik in North Holland.

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