Given name & surname
Sydenham
“large, spacious, wide”·“water meadow”
Sydenham is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sydenham is built from elements meaning “large, spacious, wide” and “water meadow”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
People named Sydenham
- Sydenham EdwardsWelsh botanist, author, editor, and scientific illustrator (1768-1819)
- Sydenham MooreAmerican politician (1817-1862)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Sydenham, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Newham
“water-meadow”
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Waltham
“forest”
>99% boys
Sugden
“kind of small bird”
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Seacombe
“sea”
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Seaford
“sea”
44% boys · 56% girls
Hwitely
“from the white meadow”
>99% boys
Ridgeley
“one who lives at the meadow'sridge”
75% boys · 25% girls
Edenfield
“river”
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