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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metronymic from a pet form of the Yiddish female personal name Sere, variant of Sore ‘Sarah’ (see Sorin) + the eastern Slavic possessive suffix -in.
  • French : from a vernacular form of the personal name Saturnin (from the Roman family name Saturninus, a derivative of Saturnus, the name of a Roman god).

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