Name «Sirko»

The name "Sirko" is likely derived from the ancient Slavic truncated bisyllabic name "Sierosław" with the substantivizing suffix "-ko." In the mid-17th century, the personal name "Sirko" became a surname due to the famous Cossack leader of the Zaporozhian Host, Ivan Sirko. In 1587, this name is recorded in the patronymic of a southwestern peasant, Tyshko Sirkovych, and in 1687, the surname "Sirko" is already mentioned in the village of V. Kopanya in Transcarpathia.