Sayce

English

Etymology

Anglicized form of Welsh Sais (“Englishman”), an ethnonymic surname.

Proper noun

Sayce (plural Sayces)

1. A surname from Welsh.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Sayce is the 7507^th most common surname in England, belonging to 867 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Sayce”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.