The silk Surname
silk Name Meaning and History
- English: metonymic occupational name for a silk merchant, from Middle English selk(e), silk(e) ‘silk’.
- English: from a medieval personal name, a back-formation from Silkin (see Sill).
- Irish (Galway): Anglicized form (part translation) of Gaelic Ó Síoda (see Sheedy).
- Americanized form (translation) of German and Jewish Seide or Seid.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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