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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : according to Caracausi an occupational name, a variant of Sicilian sansali ‘broker’, ‘agent’ (modern Italian sensale); this may represent a folk interpretation as if from san Saro, i.e. ‘St. Saro’, Saro being a common personal name in Sicily.

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