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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : topographic name, with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’, from Old French sauz, the old subjective case of salix ‘willow’.
  • French : topographic name, with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’, from Old French saut ‘grove’, ‘copse’ (from Latin saltus), or a habitational name from any of the places named Le Sault, for example in Ain and Vaucluse.
  • French : There was a family of this name from La Rochelle in Quebec city in 1663; one from Paris in Sillery in 1676.

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