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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Salento) : topographic name from the dialect word sepe ‘hedge’, ‘fence’ (Latin saepes).
  • Americanized spelling of Hungarian Szépe, from the old Hungarian secular name Szépe, or Szípe.

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