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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Practical

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (East Anglia) : nickname for a serious or solemn person, from Middle English sad ‘serious’, ‘grave’. The modern English sense, ‘unhappy’, did not develop until the 15th century.

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