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Updated June 9, 2019

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’.

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