Family name origins & meanings
- German : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of ointments, from Middle High German salbe ‘ointment’, ‘salve’. The name also came to mean ‘flatterer’, ‘toady’.
- German : nickname from Midle High German salwe ‘dark’ ‘sallow’, ‘dirty’.
- German : variant of Salet(e)l, probably Austrian, also found in the Gottschee area in Slovenia.