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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from a place in northern France, of which the identity is not clear. It is probably Sainville in Eure-et-Loire, so called from Old French saisne ‘Saxon’ + ville ‘settlement’.

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