Say Family History
- Say Name Meaning
- English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Sai in Orne or Say in Indre, perhaps so called from a Gaulish personal name Saius + the Latin locative suffix -acum. English: metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of say, a kind of finely textured cloth, Middle English say (from Old French saie, Latin saga, plural of sagum ‘military cloak’). In some instances the surname may have arisen from a nickname for an habitual wearer of clothes made of this material. Southern French: topographic name from saix ‘rock’ (Latin saxum), or a habitational name from a place named with this word, for example, Say in Loire, Saix in Tarn and Vienne, Le Saix in Hautes-Alpes, or Les Saix in Isère.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 359,092 Historical Documents with Say on Ancestry
- 65,753 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 32,739 Census and Voter Lists
- 23,210 Military Records
- 4,416 Immigration Records
- 232,974 Member Trees
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Number of Say families
 137 - 272  46 - 136 |
 1 - 45  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Say families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Say census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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