What does the last name Sykes mean?

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"English (mainly Yorkshire): topographic name for someone who lived by a stream in a marsh or in a hollow, from Middle English syke 'marshy stream', 'damp gully', or a habitational name from one of the places named with this Word, in Lancashire and West Yorkshire."

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