Sain Family History
Sain Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Zirn which is a variant of Zürn (see Zurn ). Compare Saine Sane and Sayne . Croatian and Serbian (Šain): metonymic occupational name for a hawker or a nickname from ša(h)in ‘falcon hawk (trained for hunting)’ a word of Turkish and ultimately Persian origin (see Sahin ). Compare Shain and Shine . Americanized form of Slovenian and Croatian Šajn: nickname from šajn an obsolete loanword from German meaning ‘shine’ or a Slavicized form of German Schein . As a Croatian surname it may also be a variant of Šain (see 2 above). Compare Shain and Shine . Spanish: nickname from saín ‘fat’. Portuguese and Galician: habitational name from Saim in Portugal or Zaín in Galicia. French (Saïn): metonymic occupational name for a pork butcher from Old French sain ‘lard’.7: Indian: variant of Shahin and Sahin .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022