Girl name origins & meanings
- French : Smooth fabric
Girl name variations
How Popular Is The Name Satin
Family name origins & meanings
- French : metonymic occupational name for a satin merchant or specialist satin weaver, from Middle French satin ‘satin’, a word of Arabic and (ultimately) Chinese origin, a derivative of the Chinese place name Tsinkiang, whence satin silk was brought to the Middle East and Europe in the Middle Ages.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : probably a metonymic occupational name or ornamental name from Polish satyna, eastern Slavic satin ‘satin’.