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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : occupational name for a farm laborer, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German seien ‘to sow’.
  • Dutch : variant of de Sayer ‘the serge weaver’ or ‘the sower’ (see Sayer 8 and 9).

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