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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : topographic name, from Old French savart ‘uncultivated land’, ‘waste land’.
  • French : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements sab-, sav-, of uncertain meaning + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.
  • French : The name is recorded in Quebec City in 1666, taken there from Paris.

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