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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname from Middle English sleght, sleight, slyght ‘cunning’, ‘artfulness’.
  • English : topographic name from Middle English sleyte ‘level field’ (Old Norse slétta) or from Middle English sleyte ‘sheep pasture’.

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