
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