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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : from a variant of the personal name Salvio (see Salvi).
  • Southern Italian : habitational name from Savoia de Lucania in Potenza, earlier called Salvia.
  • Southern Italian : from salvia ‘sage’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a herbalist or a grower or seller of herbs, or possibly a topographic name.

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