Family name origins & meanings
- French and English : nickname for a wild or uncouth person, from Middle English, Old French salvage, sauvage ‘untamed’ (Late Latin salvaticus, a derivative of Latin silva ‘wood’, influenced by Latin salvus ‘whole’, i.e. natural).
- The surname Sauvage, documented in Champlain, Quebec, in 1690, with the secondary surname <xref>Chevalier</xref>, was taken there from Paris.