Sycamore as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Sycamore

What is the meaning of the name Sycamore ?

The baby name Sycamore is a Unisex name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced {'phonetic': 'SIH-kə-more', 'IPA': '/ˈsɪkəmɔːr/'}.

Sycamore is English, French in Origin.

Sycamore is a nature-derived given name taken from the English word for several large shade trees. The term traces to Greek sykomoros ("fig-mulberry"), via Latin sycomorus and Old French and Middle English forms (sycomore, sycamour). In Britain it often denotes the sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus); in North America, the plane tree (Platanus occidentalis); in the Bible, "sycomore" refers to the sycomore fig (Ficus sycomorus).

While long present in place-names and surnames, Sycamore has been rare as a personal name, gaining modest currency only with recent interest in word and tree names. It connotes endurance, shelter, and steadfast growth; in ancient Egypt the sycomore fig symbolized protection and the afterlife, and the tree appears in Luke 19 as the perch of Zacchaeus. Variants and related forms include Sycomore (biblical), Sycamour/Sicamour (archaic), and modern elaborations Sycamora or Sycamorie; Sy serves as a simple nickname.

⚙ Sycamore is about as rare as a name gets. We hold just 7 recorded uses of it, from 6 countries.