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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Greek : from the personal name Sarantis, bestowed in honor of the ‘Holy Forty’ (Agii Saranda, classical Hagioi Tessarakonta), forty Christians martyred in the city of Sebastia, Armenia, around 320 ad.

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