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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Saint-Léger in La Manche or Saint-Léger-aux-Bois in Seine-Maritime, both so called from the dedication of their churches to St. Leger (see Ledger), the martyred 7th-century bishop of Autun.
  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from a Germanized form of the personal name Salomon.

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