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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from the Germanic personal name Sito, a short form of a compound name formed with sigi ‘victory’ as the first element.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name from German Seide and Yiddish zayd ‘silk’ (see Seide).

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