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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from a reduced form of the personal name Sanson, an old form of Sansone (see Samson), or alternatively from an old personal name Sanzo, from Germanic Santha-.
  • Asturian-Leonese and Spanish : habitational name from Sanzo in Asturies.

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