Skip to main content

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : variant of Sanacore, a nickname meaning ‘cure the heart’.
  • Italian : variant of Senacore, which, when not also a variant of Sanacore, may be from the Campania dialect word senacoli ‘black mustard’ (Brassica nigra), or even an adaptation of the Greek personal name Senagoras, via Latin.

Subscribe to Family Education

Your partner in parenting from baby name inspiration to college planning.

Subscribe