Sydenham

From Old English sīdan, dative of sīd (“large, spacious, wide”) + hamm (“water meadow”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sɪdənəm/

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Sydenham (countable and uncountable, plural Sydenhams)

1. (uncountable) A placename:
   1. A suburban area of Greater London in the borough of Lewisham, borough of Bromley and borough of Southwark.
   2. A village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP7301). ^[1]
   3. A suburb of Bridgwater, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3137).
   4. A suburb of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP3364).
   5. A suburb of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
   6. A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales.
   7. A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria.
   8. A community in Frontenac County, Ontario.
   9. Former name of Owen Sound (“city in Ontario”)
   10. Two rivers named Sydenham River in Ontario, one flowing into Lake Huron, the other into Lake St. Clair.
   11. A suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. ^[2]
   12. A suburb of Durban, South Africa.
   13. A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
2. (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Sydenham is the 9103^rd most common surname in England, belonging to 676 individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Sydenham”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.