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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German sal ‘hall’, ‘manorhouse’, a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked at such a place.
  • German : topographic name from Middle High German sal ‘moist dirt’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word.

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