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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Origin unidentified. Compare Sawvell. It could perhaps be a respelling of French Sauval(le), which, according to Morlet, may be a topographic name from saus, an old form of saul ‘willow’ + val ‘valley’, or perhaps of French Sauville, a habitational name from places so named in Ardennes and Vosges.

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