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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Jewish (from Poland) : from szafran ‘saffron’, a topographic name for someone who lived where the saffron crocus grew, a metonymic occupational name for a spicer, or possibly a nickname for someone with yellow hair. See Safran.

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