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).