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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Galician and Portuguese : nickname for a witty person, from salgado ‘salty’, figuratively ‘witty’, ‘piquant’ (from Late Latin salicatus, past participle of salicare ‘to give salt to’).

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