Last name origins & meanings:
- North German (Westphalian): habitational name for someone
working or living at a farm named with Middle Low German sāt
‘seed’ + hof ‘farmstead’.
- North German (Westphalian): status name for someone whose
holding (Middle Low German sate, ‘sāt’ ‘settlement’, ‘land’)
extended to one Hufe, an old measure of land.
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