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seda Name Meaning and History

  1. Jewish (Sephardic) and Catalan: metonymic occupational name for a silk merchant, from seda ‘silk’.
  2. Portuguese: habitational name from a place so called in the Portuguese region of Alentejo.
  3. Czech (Šeda): nickname from the adjective šedý ‘gray(-haired)’.
  4. Polish (Seda): from Seda, a pet form of the Polish personal names Sedzimir, composed of the elements sadzic ‘to judge’ + mir ‘peace’, or Sedziwoj, from sadzic ‘to judge’ + woj ‘warrior’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of seda Families in the US in 1920
Number of seda families
 31-59
 11-30
 1-10
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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SEDA and DE LA SEDA in former "Villa San German" Ruben Nazario 6
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Sedas in Spain and La Tuna Eduardo Seda Poulin 5
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