Family name origins & meanings
- German : topographic name from Middle High German sal ‘manor’, ‘hall’ (or from a homonym meaning ‘moist dirt’) + velt ‘field’.
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from places so called in Thuringia and East Prussia.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : compound ornamental name from Sal (a short form of Salomon) + German Feld ‘field’, ‘pasture’.