Thanksgiving Day is an annual national holiday in the United States and Canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. In the US Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November while in Canada nearly one month and a half earlier (second Monday of October).
Last name origins & meanings: 1  Polish and Jewish (from Poland): from Polish sikora âtitmouseâ, âcoalmouseâ, hence a nickname for a small, dark person, or, in the case of the Jewish name, an ornamental name. 2  Jewish (from Poland): habitational name from any of the villages called Sikory.
, Oxford University Press, besides the Irish origin, the surname may be Jewish from Belarus: Slaven - metronymic (derived from one's mother or maternal ancestors) from the Yiddish female personal name Slave (from the Slavic word slava 'glory', 'fame', 'praise') plus the eastern Slavic possessive suffix-in..lthough our surname is fairly uncommon, it doesn't mean that we all have the same background. In fact, there are several different origins and meanings, depending on where our ancestors lived a few hundred years ago.