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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : derivative of Sasse ‘Saxon’, + -er, suffix of agent nouns.
  • habitational name for someone from any of several places named Saasen in the Rhineland, Hesse, and Pomerania.

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