Sada

Family name origins & meanings

• Spanish (of Basque origin) : Castilianized variant of Basque Zare, a habitational name from Zare, a town in Navarre.
• Southern Italian : derivative of the Arabic personal name Sa‛ad, meaning ‘good fortune’, ‘prosperity’ (see Saad).
• Japanese : variously written, usually with characters meaning ‘help’ and ‘rice paddy’, and more usually pronounced ‘sata’. It is a common place name throughout Japan. Some bearers of the surname have Minamoto connections.
• Polish : occupational name for a fruit grower or topographic name for someone who lived by an orchard, from a derivative of Polish sad ‘orchard’ or sadzić ‘to plant’.
• Polish (Sąda) : occupational name for a court official, from Polish sądzić ‘to judge’ or sąd ‘court of justice’.