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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead in eastern Norway named from saug, derived from Old Norse sjoða ‘boil’, ‘seethe’ (probably with reference to a spring) + staðir, plural of staðr ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’.

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