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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : variously written, it means ‘small field’ and is found throughout Japan. Some bearers have samurai connections.
  • Italian : nickname from sano ‘healthy’, from Latin sanus, or from a short form of an adjectival habitational name formed with the suffix -sano, as for example Formisano.

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