Last name origins & meanings:
- Catalan (Sàbat): from a nickname or personal name
bestowed on someone born on a Saturday, which was considered a good
omen (Late Latin sabbatum, Greek sabbaton, from Hebrew
shabat ‘Sabbath’).
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name
from German Sabbat ‘Sabbath’.
- French: nickname for a
noisy, rowdy person, from Middle French sab(b)at ‘noise’,
‘racket’.
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