Seda

Family name origins & meanings

• Jewish (Sephardic) and Catalan : metonymic occupational name for a silk merchant, from seda ‘silk’.
• Portuguese : habitational name from a place so called in the Portuguese region of Alentejo.
• Czech (Šeda) : nickname from the adjective šedý ‘gray(-haired)’.
• Polish (Sęda) : from Sęda, a pet form of the Polish personal names Sędzimir, composed of the elements sądzić ‘to judge’ + mir ‘peace’, or Sędziwoj, from sądzić ‘to judge’ + woj ‘warrior’.