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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : occupational name for an extractor or seller of salt, from an agent derivative of Old French sal, sel (from Latin salina).
  • A Saulnier is recorded in Acadia in 1738 with the secondary surnames Soumis and Beausoleil.

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