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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and eastern German : probably from an altered short form of the personal name Alexander. Compare Sander, Santer.
  • Polish and eastern German : possibly a nickname based on Slavic satori ‘to chatter idly’, to wag one’s tongue’.

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