habitational name from places in Leicestershire and
Lincolnshire called Saxby, from the Old Norse personal name
Saxi meaning ‘sword’, or the genitive of the Old English
folk name Seaxe, Old Norse Saksar ‘Saxons’ + Old Norse
býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.nickname for someone quick to
take offense and draw his sword, from Middle English sakespey,
Old French sacquespee, from Old French sacque(r) ‘to
draw or extract’ (from sac ‘sack’) + espee ‘sword’
(Latin spatha).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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