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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern French, Swiss French, and Catalan (Salís) : unexplained.
  • Greek : occupational name for a ferryman, from sali ‘raft’, ‘ferry’, classical Greek issalion (from issos ‘equal’ + als ‘sea’, ‘water line’).

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