Sari Family History
Sari Name Meaning
Turkish (Sarı): descriptive nickname from sarı ‘yellow pale’ or ‘fair-haired’. Muslim (mainly Algeria): perhaps from Arabic sārī ‘nocturnal wayfarer’. The sense is familiar from the Koranic account of the prophet Muhammad's miraculous night-journey from Mecca to Jerusalem. Hungarian: from a pet form of the female personal name Sára (see Sara ). Italian (northern): patronymic or plural form of Saro a short form of Baldassaro variant of Baldassare . American shortened form of Greek names beginning with the Turkish word sarı (see 1 above) for example Sarigiannis ‘fair-haired John’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
