Syke
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
Syke is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks. locative name see Sykes .
- ALAlbania1 in 123K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Albania (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 2 (measured from records)
- 1 in 123K (inferred from the name graph)
25 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: community-sourced
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sykë in AL Albania.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks. locative name see Sykes .
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Syke counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | 25 | 1 in 123K | 25 | Sykë | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 8 | 1 in 2.2M | 8 | — | — |
| XK Kosovo | — | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | — |
25 people counted by INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts), counting the spelling syke. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Syke is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, pulse, heartbeat; heart rate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Alternative form of psych.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of sych
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, definite singular of syk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Syke mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks. locative name see Sykes . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Syke have the most bearers?
- In Albania, the national register counted about 25 people named Syke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sykë.
- Where is Syke most common?
- Syke is densest in Albania, where the national register counts about 1 in 123 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Syke?
- In Albania, the national register counted 25 people named Syke, about 1 in 123 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sykeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Syke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.