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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name from places so called in Cher, Ille-et-Vilaine, and Saône-et-Loire, derived from an adjectival form of the Latin personal name Sancius, or Sens in Yonne, which takes its name from the Gaulish tribe of the Senones.
  • French (Gascon) : from a variant of the personal name Saint.
  • North German and Dutch : from a short form of the personal name Vincens (see Vincent).

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