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Saunders Family Surname Origin

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Saunders Surname Meaning:

English (Surrey and Kent): variant of Sander with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022

Sander, Sanders Surname Meaning:

English (Cumberland) Dutch German and Swedish: from the personal name Sander a shortened form of Alexander . Compare Saunders . German: topographic name for someone who lived on sandy soil from Sand 1 + -er suffix denoting an inhabitant. Norwegian: habitational name from any of the seven farmsteads so named in southeastern Norway from the indefinite plural form of Old Norse sandr ‘sand sandy plain beach’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022