Sidony f
English: from a Latin ethnic name, Sidōnius (m.) or Sidōnia (f.) ‘person from Sidon’ (in Phoenicia). This quite early came to be associated with the Greek word sindon winding-sheet. Two saints called Sidonius are venerated in the Catholic Church: Sidonius Apollinaris, a 4th-century bishop of Clermont, and a 7th-century Irish monk who was the first abbot of the monastery of Saint-Saëns (named with a much mutilated form of his name). Sidonius does not seem to have been used as a given name in the later Middle Ages, but the feminine form Sidonia (English Sidony) was comparatively popular and has continued in occasional use ever since.
Variant: Sidonie.
First names dictionary. 2012.