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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian and Portuguese : nickname from serpe ‘serpent’, ‘reptile’.
  • French : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of scythes and similar implements, from Old French sarpe (hypercorrected to serpe) ‘scythe’, ‘sickle’.

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