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savage Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Scottish: nickname for a wild or uncouth person, from Middle English, Old French salvage, sauvage ‘untamed’ (Late Latin salvaticus literally ‘man of the woods’, a derivative of Latin silva ‘wood’, influenced by Latin salvus ‘whole’, i.e. natural).
  2. Irish: generally of English origin (it was taken to County Down in the 12th century), this name has also sometimes been adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Sabháin, the name of a small south Munster sept, which was earlier Anglicized as O’Savin (see Savin).
  3. Americanized form of Ashkenazic Jewish Savich.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of savage Families in the US in 1920
Number of savage families
 335-667
 112-334		 1-111
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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