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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Finnish : variant of Saari + the common surname suffix -nen. Found chiefly in western Finland. Mostly, this is an ornamental name adopted during the name conversion movement at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.

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