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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : habitational name from Siano in Salerno province.
  • Southern Italian : from the Latin personal name Seius with the addition of the suffix -anu.
  • Polish and Jewish (from Poland) : metonymic occupational name or ornamental name from Polish siano ‘hay’.

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