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Savage Name Meaning
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).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).Americanized form of Ashkenazic Jewish Savich.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Savage Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Savage families
 335 - 667  112 - 334 |
 1 - 111  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Savage families
|
884 - 1,765 295 - 883 |
1 - 294 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Savage families
|
124 - 246 42 - 123 |
1 - 41 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Savage Family Origin
Savage Immigration Information
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Savage Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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