Scottish and northern English: patronymic from Sim.English: habitational name from any of three places in Devon, so
named from Old English personal name Sigewine + tun
‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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