Frequency: (140)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English (East Anglia): nickname for a serious or solemn person, from Middle English sad ‘serious’, ‘grave’. The modern English sense, ‘unhappy’, did not develop until the 15th century.
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