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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Filipino : from Tagalog sison ‘fourth grandson’.
  • Spanish (Sisón) : derogatory nickname from sisón ‘cheat’, ‘petty swindler’.
  • Spanish (Sisón) : alternatively perhaps a nickname from the homonym sisón meaning ‘sandpiper’. This is also found as a Sephardic Jewish surname.

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