Last Name SYME

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Meaning The son of Symon, or Simon. The Gaelic words sema and syma, signify a peacemaker. The word syme or sime, in old Norman French, signifies sixth. The first of the name found on record is Syme of Spalding, also called Peter Spalding, who married a cousin of the Earl of Dunbar, and was a Burgess and also Governor of Berwick, which town he delivered by stratagem from the English to the Scotch in 1318.
Origin Scottish, Jewish, Belgian

Rank 24,892 (2000 US census)
Count 938 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 98.08%, or 920 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • undisclosed % as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 0.75%, or 7 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 0.53%, or 5 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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