Sari Family History

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’.