Where Does the Sailor Surname Come From?

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Family name meaning

Sailor? Think of it as Saylor with a different pen. The family name meaning is “Sailor / rope maker”, the same as for Saylor.

Sailor writes “i” in place of the “y” found in Saylor, a typical scribal difference. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. In the 2010 US Census, 2,412 Americans gave Sailor as their last name (rank 12,789). That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames.

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