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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : unexplained; possibly the same as 2.
  • Probably an Americanized spelling of French Sain, a metonymic occupational name for a charcutier, someone who prepared cooked meats, from Old French sain ‘fat’.

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