English · Boy name
Sheldon
“valley with steep sides”
About the name Sheldon
Sheldon comes from an English surname taken from place names in Derbyshire, Devon and the West Midlands. The usual derivation is from Old English scylf, ‘shelf’ or ‘ledge’, and denu, ‘valley’, describing a valley with steep or shelving sides; some Sheldons may instead contain dun, ‘hill’. It came into use as a given name in the United States. Bearers include the physicist Sheldon Glashow, who shared a Nobel Prize for work on the electroweak theory, and the novelist Sidney Sheldon.
- Meaning
- valley with steep sides
- Origin
- English
- Gender
- Boy
- Pronunciation
- SHEL-don(2 syl.)
Variants and spellings
No common variant spellings are widely recorded.
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Middle names for Sheldon
- Sheldon James
- Sheldon Alexander
- Sheldon Michael
- Sheldon Thomas
- Sheldon William
Questions about Sheldon
- What does Sheldon mean?
- Sheldon is an English name meaning "valley with steep sides".
- How do you pronounce Sheldon?
- Sheldon is pronounced SHEL-don, with emphasis on the first syllable.
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