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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from saracchio, a term denoting a type of grass used for matting, presumably a topographic name, or possibly a metonymic occupational name for someone who gathered the grass or wove it into mats.
  • Italian : possibly a nickname from a derivative of Arabic sarrāq ‘thief’.
  • Italian : metonymic occupational name for a saw maker, from saracco ‘hand saw’ (from Latin serra).

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