Family name origins & meanings
- French (Sauvé) : from Old French sauvé ‘saved’ (past participle of sauver ‘to save’); a nickname for someone who had had a narrow escape, or from a personal name with a religious significance referring to Christian salvation.
- A Sauve from the Guyenne region of France is documented in Lachine, Quebec, in 1696, with the secondary surname <xref>Laplante</xref>.